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Children sitting at the Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
According to the survey, a majority of Modern Orthodox Jews, 53 percent, either fully or somewhat agree that women should have “expanded roles in the clergy.”
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Eli Rowe, second from left, with members of his volunteer aid team from New York standing in front of the airplane that was donated to make the trip to San Juan, Sept. 25, 2017. (Courtesy of Rowe)
“We saw sheer destruction everywhere,” said Eli Rowe, the CEO of Jet911, a service that arranges emergency medical flights. “Roofs were off, buildings were destroyed, houses were destroyed, there was flooding in the middle of the street, stores were abandoned.”
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Rabbi Joshua Davidson delivering a High Holidays sermon at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. (Courtesy of Temple Emanu-El)
Whether or not to use the bimah as a bully pulpit has become a particularly burning issue in the first year of the Trump presidency.
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Tamar Pinto, who founded and runs the Gan Gurim preschool, teaching a student the Hebrew days of the week. (Ben Sales)
The preschool’s embrace of Israeli pedagogy comes along with an eye roll at mainstays of American parenting.
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Piles of ruined books from United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston. The congregation lost many of its prayer books and replenished them through donations. (Courtesy of United Orthodox Synagogues)
United Orthodox Synagogues, a Houston congregation, had up to six feet of flooding in some places and also lost most of its prayer books. Congregation Beth Israel had damage in its sanctuary, mechanical room and offices.
Read MoreKaren Goode calls her creation the Doorpost Blessing, and it looks nearly identical to the small, oblong case that has adorned the doorways of Jewish homes for millennia.
Read More“We’re not trying to be Jewish,” said Dexter Wakefield, a Living Church minister and the church’s spokesman. “We’re obeying God’s commandments. The holy days have great meaning for the Christians who keep them.”
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Sarah Chandler leads a twist on the kapparot ritual in which participants hug chickens rather than swinging them over their heads. (Courtesy of Chandler)
Here are five ways Jews are getting creative with the High Holidays this year.
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Volunteers in Atlanta’s Orthodox Jewish community coordinate homes for evacuees from Hurricane Irma, which is set to hit Florida this weekend. (Courtesy of Adam Starr)
The rabbis aren’t sure how long they will have to host the Floridians, though Heller estimates they will be in Atlanta at least until Wednesday
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Floridians in Tampa filling sandbags to prepare for Hurricane Irma, Sept. 5, 2017. (Brian Blanco/Getty Images)
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a statewide state of emergency, and Jewish groups already are focusing on the state’s large population of Jewish seniors. In South Florida, more than a quarter of its population is seniors, according to recent population studies.
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Michael Duke, associate editor of the Houston Jewish Herald-Voice, lost his SUV in the flooding but still managed to write his articles. (Courtesy of Duke)
“We’ve been through this before, and we had a contingency plan in place,” Duke said. “We haven’t missed a print issue for 109 years. We’re hoping this isn’t the first time.”
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