Rabbi, Family Escape New Jersey Synagogue Fire

A rabbi, his wife and six children escaped a synagogue fire that broke out in New Jersey early Friday.

Neighbors told PIX11 that the rabbi and his family were sleeping in the synagogue, Congregation Beth El, when the fire broke out around 3:45 a.m. The building also houses the Chabad of South Bergen County and The Meadowlands.

The synagogue burned down in a four-alarm fireball that rained embers on the Rutherford, New Jersey, neighborhood.

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