{"id":69651,"date":"2022-09-23T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=69651"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:59:56","slug":"high-holidays-signal-a-return-to-in-person-worship-for-most-area-congregants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/high-holidays-signal-a-return-to-in-person-worship-for-most-area-congregants\/","title":{"rendered":"High Holidays signal a return to in-person worship for most area congregants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By DEAN SHAPIRO,<em> A CCJN Special Report<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the High Holy Days approach and the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, services at the New Orleans area synagogues will be largely returning to normal for the first time since 2019, barring the threat of a major hurricane or other serious weather event approaching or reaching the local mainland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69652\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69652\" class=\"wp-image-69652 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"340\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG-265x300.jpg 265w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/340;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69652\" class=\"wp-image-69652 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Simanim-BLOG-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosh Hashanah symbolic foods of challah, apples, honey and pomegranates. (Photo courtesy \u00a9PJLibrary)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Observances of Rosh Hashanah 5783 and Yom Kippur will be offered in live, in-shul services with restrictions from the worst two years of the pandemic lifted. The wearing of face coverings, according to the rabbis interviewed for this article, will be optional for those who are still taking precautions, but other previous pandemic protocols such as temperature-measuring devices and distanced seating, will not be in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the rabbis from the New Orleans area\u2019s worship facilities are urging caution and encouraging those who might have had the virus recently or might be ailing in other ways to stay home and follow the services via live-stream platforms offered by the individual shuls. <em>(Editor&#8217;s note: This option is not available for Orthodox congregants.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior rabbis conducting the services have also emphasized that heightened security precautions are going to be in place for all High Holy Days functions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Crescent City Jewish News recently interviewed many of the senior rabbis of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox synagogues in New Orleans and Metairie and the clergy leaders discussed their plans for holding services and other activities related to the holiest days on the Hebrew calendar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on Sunday, September 25 and Yom Kippur arrives on the evening of Wednesday, October 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following is a summary of three of the local synagogues\u2019 offerings for the High Holidays. (Complete schedules of the synagogues\u2019 services can be found on their individual websites which will be listed, along with phone numbers, at the end of each section below.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>CONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThings are pretty much back to normal here,\u201d said Senior Rabbi David Gerber of the Congregation Gates of Prayer Reform Synagogue in Metairie. \u201cBarring any storms or other major events, everything is scheduled as it should be.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1718\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1718\" class=\"wp-image-1718 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/234;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1718\" class=\"wp-image-1718 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gates_of_Prayer_edit.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congregation Gates of Prayer Synagogue. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Face masks are optional for those who feel safer wearing them, but they are not a requirement for entry to the High Holy Days services or any other services or social events at CGOP, Gerber explained. There will be no taking of temperatures at the entrance to the sanctuary, nor will worshipers be required to leave space between them in the seating section, he further noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time in three years there will be a choir during High Holy Days services and the cantor will be up on the bimah singing freely with no screen in front of her. Other Torah and announcement readings will be taking place on the bimah as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gerber said that once again he and a second person will be carrying the Torah scrolls in processions through the sanctuary seating area for congregants to touch with their prayer books. Yarmulkes and tallits will be available at the entrances for those who choose to wear them in the sanctuary and prayer books will also be handed out at the sanctuary doors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Services will also be live-streamed for those who, for whatever reason, cannot attend the services in person, Gerber explained. \u201cWe use a streaming service called BoxCast, which broadcasts through our website and our Facebook page,\u201d he said. The Zoom platform, he added, is only used for the classroom learning sessions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also resuming is the traditional Tashlich, casting off of sins ceremony at the Bonnabel boat launch on Lake Pontchartrain following the Rosh Hashanah daytime service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for social events, Gerber said those will resume as well. Apples and honey will be offered following the Rosh Hashanah service and a full Succot schedule is planned, beginning on October 10. Succot participation will return to its former space alongside the synagogue building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, as always, to be on the safe side, a security detail from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office and a private security company will be on duty standing watch while services are in progress. \u201cWe\u2019ve also done a fair amount of security upgrades in the building since our last normal services and we continue to improve every year on the security,\u201d Gerber said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo now we\u2019re back in business and happy about it and we\u2019re hoping the storms stay away, Gerber added. \u201cI hope that it is truly a return and everybody\u2019s comfortable and feeling safe and healthy. I just couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to get back in the sanctuary on Rosh Hashanah with everybody,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>For more detailed information visit the Congregation Gates of Prayer Facebook page or its website, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesofprayer.org\/\"><em>www.gatesofprayer.org<\/em><\/a><em>. Their phone number is 504-885-2600.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TEMPLE SINAI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Temple Sinai, the New Orleans area\u2019s largest Reform congregation, Senior Rabbi Daniel Sherman is being \u201cguardedly optimistic\u201d about a return to normal after two years of COVID-related restrictions but he also affirmed that those restrictions have been lifted for High Holy Days services and the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m not sure I know what\u2019s normal anymore,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cWe are looking forward to things being as normal as possible and so that means we are hoping to have as many people as possible in person for all of our High Holy Days services. Our receptions that we haven\u2019t done for two years are back.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22919\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22919\" class=\"wp-image-22919 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder.jpg 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/237;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22919\" class=\"wp-image-22919 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Temple_Sinai_placeholder.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-22919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temple Sinai. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wearing of masks in the sanctuary during services, the rabbi added, \u201cwill be up to the individual. They\u2019re encouraged but not required.\u201d For those who forget to bring them, masks will be available at the sanctuary entrances. Yarmulkes will also be available for those who may have forgotten to bring their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Temperatures will not be taken at the door and there are no distancing requirements for the seating of congregants during services. Those who might be apprehensive about sitting too close to other people will have plenty of room to spread out. \u201cOur sanctuary is large enough to accommodate them,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time since 2019, there will be a choir singing from behind a screen at the rear of the bimah. Cantor Joel Colman will be singing from the bimah without the plastic screen in front of him, as had been the case for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oral Torah readings and special announcements from the bimah will also resume, although Sherman emphasized that there will be limits on how many people will be allowed up there. A decision on whether or not the rabbi and another person will be walking the Torah scrolls through the congregation had not been finalized at the time this interview was conducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will be no limits to the number of people who will be allowed to attend services at one time (it was 50 people for the past two years) \u201cOur sanctuary can seat a thousand people. We have plenty of room,\u201d Sherman said, adding that scheduling an additional service(s) would most likely be unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the heightened security measures, reservations will be required for attendance at both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services. Names on a list will be checked off as the individuals arrive. \u201cWith everything that\u2019s going on these days we need to know who is in the building,\u201d Sherman stated. And, as always, details from the New Orleans Police Department will also be on hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the Rosh Hashanah evening service there will be a sweets reception in the auditorium for those who want to participate, as well as a luncheon after Rosh Hashanah morning. Reservations are required.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although stating that the emphasis will once again be on the in-person services, Sherman also stressed that streaming of the High Holy Days services will once again be available via Zoom for those who are unable to attend in person. Sherman advised those who may be ill with any type of potentially contagious ailment to stay home and view the services on the streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sherman also expressed confidence that the observance of Succot, coming five days after Yom Kippur, will also return to normal; again, barring a COVID variant resurgence or a major storm. He encourages congregants to check the synagogue website and\/or Facebook page, as well as weekly e-blasts for the latest updates, if any.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrapping up on an optimistic note, Sherman said, \u201cLast year we were scattered all around (due to Hurricane Ida). Many people who were back in town were busy trying to put homes back together again and so Yom Kippur didn\u2019t have the feel it usually does. We\u2019re really hoping that this year we have more of a homecoming, and those who are away can take advantage of the online option and feel like a participant. I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>For more detailed information visit the Temple Sinai Facebook page or its website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templesinainola.com\/\">www.templesinainola.com<\/a> &nbsp;Their phone number is 504-861-3693.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>SHIR CHADASH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Echoing most of the sentiments of his counterparts from the Reform temples, Rabbi Scott Hoffman from the Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation in Metairie, made the following statement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom present indications, though we will offer live-streams as we always do as an option for people, the primary thrust of services will be in person. Most people, I think, will be physically in the building. It\u2019s hard to say exactly what the masking policy will be; that\u2019s more to be judged in live time. It\u2019s probably recommended and that\u2019s kind of where we are now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69654\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69654\" class=\"wp-image-69654 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw.png 915w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/223;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69654\" class=\"wp-image-69654 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ShirChadash_bw.png 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, while calling for \u201cexercising an abundance of caution\u201d for the safety of those who might be most vulnerable (young children and the elderly), Hoffman added, \u201cBut unless it gets much worse I do not see us going back to requiring masks\u201d and other preventative steps that were taken the COVID mandate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who are on the bimah during the services, including the cantor, will be masked if they are not speaking or singing, Hoffman said. But while they\u2019re speaking or singing the masks will be off so that people in the congregation can hear them better. He will also be masked while walking around with the Torah scrolls and he is limiting hand-shaking and other means of physical contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distance spacing in the sanctuary will be available to those who prefer it and there will be a small mask-only exclusively for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo, while we\u2019re leading the prayers we don\u2019t mask. Even during high COVID,\u201d Hoffman explained. \u201cOnce the vaccines came out we permitted the leaders to be unmasked. And it was the same for bar and bat mitzvahs. We permitted all who were leading to be unmasked and we left the first couple of rows open so we weren\u2019t near to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There won\u2019t be any temperature-taking prior to entering the sanctuary. Yarmulkes, tallits and prayer books will be available for those who don\u2019t have them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At present, Shir Chadash doesn\u2019t have a choir, so there is no issue over whether or not the singers would be masked. Hoffman hinted that eventually a choir might be hired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live-streaming of High Holy Days services will once again be made available to those who are homebound, ill or otherwise unable to attend in person, Hoffman emphasized. Viewers at home will be able to observe the services on the shul\u2019s website but not interact with them as would be the case with Zoom. Prayer books can be hand delivered to those who may need them to follow along at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for security measures, Shir Chadash will once again hire armed deputies from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office to guard the synagogue during services and other events. \u201cWe have several officers who work with us on a regular basis every week,\u201d Hoffman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the morning Rosh Hashanah service the traditional Tashlich casting off of sins event will take place alongside Lake Pontchartrain, just across the levee from the parsonage where Hoffman resides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assuming that there is no recurrence of a COVID variant outbreak and there are no serious weather events, Succot observance will go on as normal, beginning on the Monday after Yom Kippur, Hoffman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In closing, Hoffman said, \u201cThose of us who are blessed to have survived this difficult period offer our thanks for having been privileged to successfully persevere in difficult times and also to ensure that we remember those who were not so fortunate and continue through our memory to make their lives a blessing for the Jewish people. On behalf of the entire Shir Chadash community I would like to wish everybody a healthy and happy 5783.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>For more detailed information visit the Shir Chadash Facebook page or its website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirchadash.org\/\">www.shirchadash.org<\/a>. 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