Congregation Rodeph Shalom, is a historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Established in 1795, it is the o
Rodeph Shalom Synagogue in 2010
Rodeph Shalom synagogue, designed by Frank Furness, completed in 1866
Rodeph Shalom Synagogue's sanctuary ceiling
The synagogue in 2024
Marcus Jastrow
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Marcus Jastrow was a Prussian-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, lexicographer, and renowned Talmudic scholar.
Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia)
…Israel's Rabbi David Einhorn's denunciations of slavery as contrary to Biblical and Talmudic law. In 1866, Rodeph Shalom called Warsaw's scholarly Rabbi Marcus Jastrow to its pulpit in acknowledgment of his heroic activism against the Russia-dominated Polish government. Leeser and Jastrow then helped form a short-lived…
Marcus Jastrow
Portrait of Marcus Jastrow as Rabbi of Worms, c. 1864–1868