Butler synagogue overflows with those searching for healing
The mournful packed into Butler's Congregation B'Nai Abraham Thursday night in search of healing.
When the pews filled, they brought in folding chairs. When those filled, still more people crowded into adjacent hallways just to listen.
One woman visiting from British Columbia, Canada, Nancy Crerar, said she stepped outside for a moment and saw a middle-aged woman kneeling by a window, her ear pressed to a crack in the glass.
In recognition of the 11 people killed in Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue last Saturday, over a dozen pastors of various denominations joined with the Butler synagogue for an interfaith service and a candlelit walk down Main Street. The synagogue's Cantor Michal Gray-Schaffer led much of the night's ceremony. She mourned, and she spoke of hope.
“One may lie down weeping at nightfall,” Gray-Schaffer said. “But at dawn there are shouts of joy.”
This is an excerpt — the full story with pictures will appear on the front of Friday's Eagle.
