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THANKSGIVING
NEW YORK--Eleven Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish clergymen
joined in leading an interreligious Thanksgiving service at a Reform
Synagogue in New York City. The worship, held at Stephen Wise
Free Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side, featured readings
from the Old Testament, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Walt Whitman and contemporary black poet Langston Hughes.
Those participating included, left to right, the Rev. Richard
Symes, Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian church; Rabbi Edward Kiev,
Jewish Institute of Religion-Hebrew Union College; the Rev. Joseph
M. Zorawick, St. Stephen's Episcopal church; Rabbi Gunter Hirschberg,
Congregation Rodeph Sholom; Dr. Lawrence Durgin, Broadway United
Church of Christ; Rabbi Edward Klein, of the host synagogue; Nick
Hudston, a guitarist; Rabbi James H. Perman, also of the Stephen
Wise Synagogue; Father Joseph Gallagher, Church of St. Paul the
Apostle; the Rev. Sharon Ringe, Broadway United Church of Christ;
Msgr. Thomas Heneghan, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, and Rabbi
Bernard Cohn, Congregation Haborim.
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RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (S-NY-11E-71-CA)
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