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Comments (0)A few weeks ago, I traveled back home to Niles, IL, to officiate at a good friend’s wedding and spend some time with family. I took the kids geocaching near the pool where I used to lifeguard. Walking back toward my childhood home, we passed by the neighborhood shul, a once-vibrant Chicago suburban congregation which had not been my own synagogue, but where I attended several b’nai mitzvah and services from time to time. The past decade had been particularly challenging for Northwest Suburban Jewish Congregation, and (in the absence of a nearby constituency) they were finally forced to close their doors last year. So here I was with my children, trying to explain this to them as we gazed at a building in transition, how it wasn’t really a “sad” thing that a cross now adorned the exterior… read more
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