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(JTA) – Six days ago, on Shabbat, Rabbi Jonathan Perlman was hiding in a pitch-black storage closet as one of his congregants was shot dead in front of him. , Congregational counseling and figuring out how to move forward a community, a city – and a rabbi.
Now, for the first time since the mbadacre that killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue, Perlman and his small congregation, New Light, will welcome Shabbat. It will be in a different building, with an armed guard outside and without three of the Conservative congregation's most active members.
New Light will be meeting on its own Friday night. But on Saturday morning, Perlman and the leaders of the other two congregations that shared the targeted building, Tree of Life * Gold The Simcha and Dor Hadash, will preside over a combined service in the large sanctuary of another local Conservative synagogue, Beth Shalom That is expected to draw hundreds of worshippers.
The Tree of Life Building is closed for an investigation of the shooting, so its congregations must meet elsewhere.
"Hopefully when I get there, I'll be feeling strengthened by everyone else around me," Perlman told JTA on Friday afternoon.
"This Shabbat I hope to be the opposite of last Shabbat: We'll get some rest," Perlman told JTA, noting that Beth Shalom would also be celebrating the recent marriage of one of its clergy on Saturday. "There's celebrations and tragedies, and we're pulled. But it's a renewal. "
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