A Cincinnati rabbi was invited to open the U.S. Senate with a prayer Thursday. Gary Zola, a historian, is executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives on the Cincinnati campus of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Zola was invited to be guest chaplain by Sen. George Voinovich (R-Oh.). Voinovich, Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Oh.), Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Oh.) and Rep. Rob Portman (R-Oh.) co-sponsored a resolution honoring 350 years of American Jewish life in America and recognizing the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish history, which Zola chairs.
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