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‘Everybody knows everybody’: At Highland Park prayer vigil, it feels like a small village
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – The Jewish members of the local clergy alliance did not make the community prayer vigil at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church Tuesday night. But the Mishnah was heard nonetheless. “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief, but do justly now,” the church’s Rev. Quincy Worthington said, quoting…
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