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Temple Rodef Shalom (Falls Church, Virginia)
Temple Rodef Shalom is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 2100 Westmoreland Street, Falls Church, in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. Founded in 1962, it counts a membership of over 1,700 households and is the largest congregation in Virginia. In 1963, the Temple hired Laszlo Berkowits as its first rabbi. In 1998, it became one of the largest congregations in the United States to have a female rabbi, when it replaced Berkowits, who had decided to retire, with then-Associate Rabbi Amy Schwartzman. The Temple's Associate Rabbis are Jeffrey Saxe and Stephanie Bernstein. It hired its first cantor, Michael Shochet, in 1998. Rachel Rhodes is the Associate Cantor. Other Rabbis are Rachel Rhodes and Alexandra Stein.
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