The story of the murder of Rabbi Philip Rabinowitz, zt'l, and the feeling of loss by the members of his synagogue, Kesher Israel Congregation, and by the greater Washington, D.C., Jewish community. Originally published in the Baltimore Jewish Times in 1984 under the title "A Congregation in Mourning."
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