Community Corner
Local Trayvon Martin Vigil Draws Dozens
Event organized by Shir Tikvah synagogue rabbis.
A day after a Florida jury delivered its controversial verdict acquitting George Zimmerman of Trayvon Martin's murder, around 125 people gathered at Shir Tikvah in Southwest Minneapolis, according to the Star Tribune.
The vigil, organized by the synagogue's Rabbi Michael Latz, featured songs, prayers, and speakers who called the trial's result a monstrous injustice. The event was intended to help the community support itself.
“We’ve seen in the past after moments like this, some horrible deaths or beatings, where people don’t have a good healthy place to turn their anger or their grief or their sorrow or their confusion,” Latz told the Star Tribune. “That’s what a sanctuary is for, that’s what a spiritual community is for: to talk about the really tough stuff.”
Attendees came from as far away as Hudson, WI.
Read the rest at StarTribune.com
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