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(Rebroadcast) President Taft at Rodef Shalom

In May of 1909, a Shabbat, President William Howard Taft became the first American President to speak  from the Bimah of a Jewish Congregation while in office.

The Rodef Shalom Congregation, in Pittsburgh played host to the touring President. Archivist Martha Berg talked with us last yearabout Taft's visit to Pittsburgh and the importance of his speech.