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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 develops a world defined during the 21st century by the deaths of so many people?” ....