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Illinois Governor JB Pritkzer made a stop in Belleville on Thursday, visiting a vaccination site at the Belle-Clair Fairgrounds and Expo Center. The site is large enough
January 29, 2021 2:30 pm A set of COVID-19 vaccination record cards from the CDC. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)
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(JTA) The email offered what felt like a lifeline to the dozens of rabbis in the Chicago area who received it last week. “Vaccines are now available for clergy,” an official with the Chicago Board of Rabbis wrote, passing along a link to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Days later, some of those rabbis were rolling up their sleeves to get the shot that would start to make their pre-pandemic lives possible once again. Lizzi Heydemann, rabbi and founder of Mishkan, a nondenominational congregation in Chicago, marked her vaccination with a public Facebook post accompanied by a translation of the Shehecheyanu prayer: “That we lived and stood up and reached this time.”