OLDEST SYNAGOGUE IN ILLINOIS TO CLOSE…

Chicago Jewish News ^ | 18 April 2019 | Ellen Braunstein

[DUMBGRUNT]

“A huge piece of Jewish history in the state of Illinois is going to be closing,” Gordon said. The building was started in 1869 and finished a year later. This year marks the sesquicentennial celebration, Gordon said.

“With the closing of B’nai Sholom, between St. Louis, Missouri and Rock Island, Illinois there is no community with a synagogue along the river,” Frolick said. “This is it. This is the last one. That’s quite a stretch of miles.

[DUMBGRUNT]

My wife was in Quincy Illinois for a funeral, meets an old friend at her hotel, there for the deconsecration of her temple, very sad.

This is like the canary in the coal mine.

The church of my parents and my youth is a shadow of what it once was.

More than a few want the state to be the opiate of the masses.

[JudgemAll]

Allahakhbar, all your religions are belong to us

[virgil]

I lived in Quincy for a year. I didn’t know they had this temple. They should have had it made into a historical landmark.

[Wallace T.]

How much of such situations are due to the deindustrialization of flyover country and shrinking rural and small town population, Jewish or otherwise? Only 2 1/2 years of Trump, also facing hostility from both parties, cannot in itself restore decades old tendencies of closed factories, larger scale agriculture, and lessened opportunity outside the metro areas.

[Bonemaker]

Geez, even jews are abandoning the liberal paradise of illannoy.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Republican candidate Donald Trump collected 70.6 percent of the vote in Adams County. The GOP has carried Adams County in the last 13 presidential elections.

Quincy Il is the heart of Adams County.

[beethovenfan]

I’m sure Illinois will soon have many more mosques. Piss on Islam.