Colleyville synagogue will host ‘healing service’ Monday night at Southlake church
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Congregation Beth Israel will lead the service, which is open to the public, at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church.
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Congregation Beth Israel, which was the site of a hostage situation over the weekend, will host a special service Monday night at a Southlake church, the synagogue announced on Facebook.
The “Healing Service” is scheduled for 7 p.m. at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake. It will be open to the public and livestreamed on the congregation’s Facebook page.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker will lead the service, the congregation said, “to help all of us to begin to put this terrible event behind us and be thankful for a good result.”
The rabbi and three others were held hostage for 11 hours during a Shabbat service Saturday at the Colleyville synagogue.
The congregation said social distancing and masks will be encouraged, and that there will be no filming at the service.
2 comments:
This follows with established Reform tradition.
After all, the initial Reformer in Germany and the US had separate seating in their "temples". Mixed seating started in a small town in the US where the Reform congregation used a local church on Saturday mornings which had only one row of pews so there was no way to separate. They said "What the hell" and mixed and it took off from there. So for this guy to go back to church is just getting back to his roots.
The part that I find difficult to fathom is that this Rabbi threw a chair. If you follow the storyline it would follow that he “threw kisses”. Oh well.
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