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rom its hills, bridges
and rivers, Pittsburgh
is a city of visual beau-
ty and variety. It's a city of
glass skyscrapers and red
brick houses hugging the hill-
sides; a city of parks and
plazas and old buildings put
to new uses.
It is most distinctively a
river city. It's situated at the
confluence of the Allegheny
and Monongahela Rivers,
which join to become the Ohio
River.
The largest city in Western
Pennsylvania — and the na-
tion's largest inland port — is
also a city of dramatic change.
Once it was known as "Iron
City" and "Smoky City," the
city Charles Dickens describ-
ed as "hell with the lid off."
But extensive urban renewal
has transformed a once grit-
ty steel mill town into a
clean, spacious city of parks,
plazas and skyscrapers. By
1986, a Rand McNally survey
of American cities named
Pittsburgh as America's most
liveable city.
It's increasingly popular
with tourists, who enjoy the
river city in varied ways:
They take boat rides, gaze up
at the glass skyscrapers, and
visit the Point to put their
fingers in the water at the
place where the two rivers
meet.
They line up to ride the
popular cable railways —
Pittsburgh's answer to San
Francisco — which climb the
steep slopes to Mount
Washington. There, 1,200 feet
above the downtown area,
they enjoy a view of hills,
rivers and bridges.
This river city also has
special attractions for the
Jewish traveler. They include
a historic synagogue with an
unusual biblical garden, a
modern Jewish Community
Center, and an old-fashioned
Jewish neighborhood on one
of the city's many hills.
Rodef Shalom Temple is one
of the few synagogues in the
United States to be listed on
the National Register of
Historic Places. It is head-
quarters for the oldest Jewish
congregation in Western
Pennsylvania, chartered in
1856, and is one of the thirty
synagogues in a city with an
estimated Jewish population
of 45,000.
The temple at 4905 Fifth
Avenue is an intricate struc-
ture with a huge multi-
colored tile dome. When con-
structed in 1906, it was the
largest masonry vault struc-
ture of its kind.
It was built by Pittsburgh
architect Henry Hornbostel,
who also designed the first
building for Carnegie Mellon
University and the city's
Soldiers and Sailors
Memorial. "But this syna-
gogue is one of his
greatest works," says
Associate Rabbi Mark
Staitman.
Now it's headquarters for
an influential Reform con-
gregation. Rodef Shalom,
which became a Reform con-
gregation in 1864, was one of
the original founding
members of the Union of
American Hebrew
Congregations.
It was Rodef Shalom which
hosted the meeting of the
Central Conference of
American Rabbis in 1885 at
which the rabbis adopted
what became known as the
"Pittsburgh platform." "This
was a statement of the
guiding rules of Reform
Judaism," Rabbi Staitman
said.
The congregation recently