In an LDS Church gymnasium Thursday evening, a spirited string rendition of "Hava Nagila," a traditional Jewish song, filled the air. On tables laden with potluck-ready dishes, visitors found bagels, a braided challah loaf of bread and shredded potato pancakes called latkes.
This might not seem, at first, like your typical Mormon gathering, but to members of B'nai Shalom — Hebrew for "Children of Peace" — this was both fully Jewish and fully LDS.
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