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Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts has added Hazzan Nathan Lam to its clergy team. Lam is joining Temple of the Arts’ Rabbi David Baron, Cantor Ilysia

Rabbi Ed Feinstein, spiritual leader of  Valley Beth Shalom, the San Fernando Valley’s largest synagogue, sought to be concise and clear about his

Pittsburgh City Paper columnist Tereneh Idia has tackled difficult topics, including racism, COVID-19, and body shaming, with blunt honesty and earnest passion. Now, her work...

Even as synagogues begin planning for services and programs that will approximate synagogue life before the pandemic, many recognize a need to memorialize the unprecedented disruption and loss suffered by congregations from COVID-19. “I wanted something that would remind us of what we had gone through. This will be a story that we will need to tell,” said Rabbi Rabbi David Steinhardt, spiritual leader of B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Fla. Clergy and congregants are finding a myr...

8 shares Rabbi Jennifer Weinstein inside Guttermans Funeral Home, May 15, 2020, Woodbury, New York. (Photo by Jonathan Alpeyrie/Polaris Images) JTA — Rabbi Paul Kipnes watched helplessly as 11 of his congregants died over the span of 11 days in January from COVID or COVID-related illness. The losses — along with another five congregant deaths that same month — compelled him to pour out his grief in a blog post titled “After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God.” “I’m...

Rabbi Paul Kipnes watched helplessly as 11 of his congregants died over the span of 11 days in January from COVID or COVID-related illness. The losses — along with another five congregant deaths that same month — compelled him to pour out his grief in a blog post titled “After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God.”

Synagogues touched by COVID adapt to serve grieving congregations (Wikimedia Commons) Advertisement (JTA) — Rabbi Paul Kipnes watched helplessly as 11 of his congregants died over the span of 11 days in January from COVID or COVID-related illness. The losses — along with another five congregant deaths that same month — compelled him to pour out his grief in a blog post titled “After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God.” “I’m so angry. At You, All Powerful One,...

In Los Angeles, the Jewish funeral homes cannot keep up with the bodies.

In Los Angeles, the Jewish funeral homes cannot keep up with the bodies. Some family members are being forced to wait a week or even longer for burials. The city’s largest Jewish funeral home, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, rented a second 12-meter refrigerated truck last week to hold bodies with the one rented in March filled to capacity with 40 corpses. In some cases, funerals are being delayed because overwhelmed doctors too busy caring for patients at inundated hospitals don�...

In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community January 20, 2021 2:47 pm A view of some of the graves at the Groman Eden Mortuary in Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, Calif. (Anthony Lampe) Advertisement (JTA) — In Los Angeles, the Jewish funeral homes cannot keep up with the bodies. Some family members are being forced to wait a week or even longer for burials. The city’s largest Jewish funeral home, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuari...