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As Tyson leaves and a church’s pews empty, its congregation wonders how it – and ...

Lincoln Journal Star 17 Jan 2026
Tyson’s 3,200 Lexington plant employees make up about half of the town’s labor force. At First United Methodist Church, the congregation is already feeling the toll of the looming closure ... .
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Miss. synagogue congregant shares story of 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing

Dothan Eagle 17 Jan 2026
JACKSON, Miss.Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed her synagogue in 1967. This past weekend, at 75, she watched it burn again ... .
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Five Things To Know About Rabbi Lauren Cohn, Beth Isreal Congregation

SCNOW Morning News 17 Jan 2026
Rabbi Lauren Cohn brings a unique perspective and background to the Pee Dee community. Hailing from big cities like Dallas and Atlanta, Cohn appreciates the tight-knit nature of the congregation in Florence ....
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As Tyson leaves and a church's pews empty, congregation wonders how it – and Lexington ...

The Grand Island Independent 17 Jan 2026
LEXINGTON — The pastor paced the stage as he broached his town's biggest dilemma. Forty congregants listened from the pews of the First United Methodist Church of Lexington. Behind them is a stained glass American flag atop a hill. More ... .
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As Tyson leaves and a church\u2019s pews empty, its congregation wonders how it \u2013 and ...

York News-Times 17 Jan 2026
Andrew Wegley Flatwater Free Press ... Forty congregants listened from the pews of the First United Methodist Church of Lexington ... More recently, the congregation draped Mexican, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and Cuban flags from their sanctuary's balcony ... .
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Florence’s Beth Israel Congregation installs first resident rabbi in 14 years

SCNOW Morning News 16 Jan 2026
Rabbi Lauren Cohn brings a unique perspective and background to the Pee Dee community. Hailing from big cities like Dallas and Atlanta, Cohn appreciates the tight-knit nature of the congregation in Florence ....
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Many Penn State transfers have congregated at 3 schools, and 2 of them may surprise ...

Penn Live 16 Jan 2026
More than 50 players from the 2025 Penn State roster have entered the transfer portal to find new homes. A whopping 19 of those departures have landed at just three schools. One of those schools should come as no surprise ... The two others? Not so much.
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Congregant shares story of 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing

TimesDaily 15 Jan 2026
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed her synagogue in 1967. This weekend, at 75, she watched it burn again ... .
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Clarksdale's Jewish community reacts to Beth Israel Congregation fire

The Enterprise-Tocsin 15 Jan 2026
Jewish Clarksdale residents and other members of the community discussed their thoughts and feelings after a fire was set to Beth Israel Congregation in northeast Jackson on the morning of Saturday, Jan.
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Israel to Honor Charlie Kirk at Antisemitism Conference

The Algemeiner 15 Jan 2026
21, 2025. Photo. REUTERS/Caitlin O’Hara ... Born on Oct ... This past weekend, a 19-year-old suspect, Stephen Pittman, was arrested for allegedly igniting a catastrophic fire which decimated the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Billings First Congregational Church listed on National Register of Historic Places

Missoulian 14 Jan 2026
The church, which was established only three months after Billings was incorporated, is the first religious building in Yellowstone County to earn this recognition ... .
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NASW Mississippi Chapter Denounces Violence Committed Against Beth Israel Congregation (NASW - National Association of Social Workers)

Public Technologies 14 Jan 2026
This tragic act of violence against the Beth Israel Congregation serves as a painful reminder that religious hatred and antisemitism continue and there is an urgent need for collective action to end it.
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Accused Beth Israel arsonist Spencer Pittman calls congregation ‘the synagogue of Satan’

The Clarksdale Press Register 14 Jan 2026
Pittman is charged with arson of property involved in interstate commerce for allegedly setting the building that houses the Beth Israel Congregation and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life on fire.
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