Today, two clergymen describe themselves as having such parallel lives, experiences and feelings that it’s uncanny \u2014 unless you believe, as they do, that divine intervention is at work.<\/p>\n
On October 27, 2018, a gunman stormed a synagogue in Pittsburgh during Sabbath services and killed 11 people. It was the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers was leading services for the Tree of Life Temple that morning. He survived by hiding in a bathroom and staying on the phone with emergency services.<\/p>\n
Three years earlier, in Charleston, South Carolina, a White supremacist opened fire during a Wednesday night bible study session at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church.<\/p>\n
Pastor Eric Manning took over that grieving congregation.<\/p>\n
Manning and Myers had never met. But Manning visited Pittsburgh after the synagogue attack to meet Myers \u2014 kicking off a deep and unexpected friendship.<\/p>\n
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