OU Exec: We Must Bring the Backyard Experience Into the Shul instead of the Shul Experience into the Backyards
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OU Exec: We Must Bring the Backyard Experience Into the Shul instead of the Shul Experience into the Backyards
With the pandemic's end in sight the Orthodox Union convened small synagogues to discuss returning to full operations.
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(December 20, 2020, New York, JNS Wire) Responding to the challenges that many smaller Orthodox Jewish shuls are experiencing in engaging and growing their communities during the pandemic, the Orthodox Union’s Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue & Community Services recently convened rabbinic and lay leadership from more than 21 smaller Orthodox communities to virtually discuss and collaborate on strategies to help them unite and ignite their synagogues throughout turbulent times where communal physical gatherings in their buildings have been on pause for close to nine months.