Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, will deliver the first-ever invocation from a rabbi before Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, August 28, at Denver’s INVESCO Field.
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[...] to the Forward, this is quite probably the first time a Rabbi, a Jewish faith leader, offers the invocation before a presidential nomination [...]