CHICAGO (WGN) — A terrorist attack at a synagogue in northern England on Thursday is heightening safety concerns within Chicago’s Jewish community, prompting synagogues and local organizations to step up security and support their members.

“The sort of religious introspection that I think any religious person goes through at some point during the year, that’s the solemn day that happens for us on Yom Kippur,” Rabbi Micah Greenland said.

Greenland leads the Youth Movement of the Orthodox Union, one of the largest Jewish youth organizations in the world. He spent much of the holiest day of the Jewish calendar at the synagogue in prayer.

“We’re fasting for 25 hours from sundown on Wednesday night until the stars break on Thursday night,” he said.

It’s when the fast ended Thursday night th

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