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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 myriad of ways to remember the pandemic’s impact, from creating art to commissioning a Torah to writi...
8 shares Rabbi Jennifer Weinstein inside Gutterman's 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 so angry. At You, All Powerful One,” Kipnes wrote. “God damn You, God! … What kind of Divine...