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B nai Torah Congregation considers return to virtual events ahead of high holidays
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From Torah heists to hurricane-proof scrolls, synagogues encounter bumps on way to Torah ownership
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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 writing special prayers.
As he plans for his community to come back together in person, Steinhardt thinks the moment calls for a significant project, “something more than saying
Rabbi David Steinhardt of Boca Raton, Fla., confessed that he had never dealt with anything remotely comparable: in the last four months, five congregants or their close relatives have died by suicide. All were single men aged 20 to 60.
In contrast, during his nearly 38 years in the rabbinate, Steinhardt – spiritual leader of the 1,200-unit B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Fla. – said he had dealt with a total of four suicides. Convinced that these latest suicides were related to COVID-19, he decided to organize programs by mental health professionals and to address the mental health challenges the pandemic has presented.