By Judy Berger | March 10, 2021
March 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the Young Israel of New Rochelle’s quarantine by the Westchester County Health Commissioner. The YINR community gathered via Zoom to mark the occasion and receive a message of chizuk from Rabbi Fink.
Current YINR President Andrew Wurzburger highlighted Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s press release, “At the direction of Westchester County health commissioner,
Dr. Sherlita Amler, I had to inform Young Israel of New Rochelle to halt all services immediately and for the foreseeable future, due to potential COVID-19 exposure connected to the man who tested positive today. Additionally, congregants of the synagogue who attended either services on February 22, or a funeral or bat mitzvah at the temple on February 23, must self-quarantine until at the very earliest March 8. Those who do not self-quarantine will be mandated to by the County Department of Health to do so.”