A school prom scheduled for the first night of Passover is upsetting Jewish students in an Illinois town. “This is like putting the prom on Good Friday, or Easter or, like, Christmas Eve,” said Jennifer Mann, a senior at Warren High School in Gurnee, Ill.
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