A Rabbi on High on the High Holy Days
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in eJewishPhilanthropy last fall. Given how many congregations are needing to pivot to deal with the upsurge in the Covid/Delta variant, many planning a mix of on-line and in-person services for the coming holidays, we thought the spirit of innovation represented by this article was worth re-publishing. Packing the drive-in-movie-theater with over two-hundred cars on Yom Kippur, the Cantor and I conducted services from, of all places, the rooftop of a snack shack. Far from ideal, we had to battle the elements, with winds of over thirty-miles an hour whipping by us, and navigate a sound system where people could hear much better in their cars, than those of us actually leading the service. And, this […]
