Shir Chadash, a Reform congregation in Florence, Italy, will get a full-time visiting rabbi in September. Rabbi Robert Rothman served Community Synagogue in Rye, N.Y., for 31 years and most recently volunteered for congregation Bet David in South Africa.
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