BY CATHERINE FISCHER
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Originally appeared on the URJ Blog, September 2017.
Congregation Rodeph Shalom was founded in 1795 and is the oldest Ashkenazic congregation in the Western Hemisphere; it is also the largest synagogue in Philadelphia. Today we have about 1,150 households – and about a third of them are Baby Boomers.
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