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Subscribe today! INSIDE [email protected] Quick Look 6-7 Dallas Doings 8 Around the Town ‘Schultz’s 12-13 Jewish Homes & Real Estate Ledger’ 16-18 Federation News Howard Schultz’s life story 19-20 Arts & Culture 21 Simchas is lled with hard work 22-23 Jewish Foodie and paying it forward, pp. 6-7 24 Calendar 28-29 Columnists 30 Synagogues Thursday, March 12, 2020 • 16 Adar 5780 • VOLUME 74 NO. 11 • tjpnews.com $1.00 An Evening of Song Shulem Lemmer will perform at Chabad of Plano event, pp,. 10-11 Photo: Courtesy Shulem Lemmer Shabbat begins: TIME TO ‘CHILI,’ P. 4 7:16p.m. Friday, Mar. 13 Shabbat ends: The 27th Dallas Kosher Chili Cook-O is Sunday 8:26p.m. Saturday, Mar. 14 2 | March 12, 2020 Shuls getting creative amid the coronavirus outbreak By Josefi n Dolsten coronavirus spreads, turning long- a team to make recommendations (JTA) — On a typical Friday, some standing communal practices into for the community. 200 people show up for services at potentially dangerous behaviors. In the email, members were told Temple De Hirsch Sinai, a Reform Synagogues are reconsidering to take a number of precautions congregation in Seattle. every aspect of their offerings, when attending services. They But last week, there was no from whether to hold services to include avoiding the custom of one in the pews as Rabbi Daniel how to serve food to exactly how kissing ritual objects such as Weiner welcomed Shabbat in the congregants should encounter mezuzahs, prayer books and the synagogue’s smaller sanctuary. ritual objects. Torah scroll. Instead, some 1,500 people The changes are being made As an alternate greeting to watched Weiner lead the prayers rapidly, with limited and shifting kissing and handshakes, members on their computers. guidance from health authorities, were told they should instead The synagogue hasn’t been and different communities are “touch elbows, or wave, or do holding any services for 10 days coming to different conclusions. the Spock ‘live long and prosper’ Photo: Romemu due to the coronavirus outbreak, What’s clear, however, is that the Priestly hand blessing!” Rabbi Mira Rivera, left, reads the megillah during the livestreamed Purim service which has claimed 21 lives in epidemic could have long-lasting The synagogue already at Romemu in New York City, March 9, 2020. Washington state and thousands consequences for communal livestreams its Friday evening around the world. Jewish life. services, but now will also be congregation draws on its history Conservative synagogue in Los Though there wasn’t a physical Ordinarily, the worshippers making its Saturday services in how to deal with the current Angeles’ Venice Beach, is still minyan, the quorum of 10 people who attend Friday evening available online. Rabbi Sharon situation. holding services but is taking steps required to say certain prayers, services at Congregation Beit Kleinbaum is also reaching out to “CBST, as the LGBT synagogue to reduce the spread of germs. Weiner realized that “in the Simchat Torah, an unaffi liated older members who may not be in NY, has gone through a plague The synagogue is installing virtual space we were well above a synagogue in New York City, are safe attending services in person. before,” she said referring to the automatic hand sanitizer pumps in minyan.” asked to touch each other during “It saddens me for some of our HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s the building and worshippers have “It felt unusual but I think the Hamotzi, the blessing over folks who are older — they might and 1990s, during which 40% of been asked to wave at the Torah we are all in vastly unusual the bread. But the synagogue sent not have a partner, they don’t have its membership died. “We have a rather than touch it with their circumstances,” he told the Jewish community members an email children, so self-quarantining lot of wisdom and spiritual depth tzitzit fringes, as is customary. Telegraphic Agency on Monday. on Monday instructing them to means real isolation,” she said. about dealing with these kinds Individual rolls are being served “We are all kind of rewriting how “instead focus on our spiritual “My goal is to make sure all the of situations and we’re doing instead of a large challah, and there we do things.” connection.” folks who are in that situation are everything we can to follow all likely won’t be any candy thrown Indeed, Jewish communities Beit Simchat Torah has getting contact from us and being the protocols recommended by at a bat mitzvah that is planned for around the world are engaging in recruited members who are connected to community.” science and by the CDC.” this weekend, according to Rabbi the same kind of rethinking as the scientists and doctors to serve on Kleinbaum said her Similarly, Mishkon Tephilo, a Gabriel Botnick. March 12, 2020 | 3 “It’s a little weird being a loving drinking, they are eating, and to go house to house and read warm community where we can’t also the costume contest is the megillah from the outside tjpnews.com actually be in touch as much, but canceled because people get for those who are quarantined the biggest concern we have is for really close to one another and inside. the elderly in our community,” they crowd and we decided that Some Jewish clergy say the Botnick said. it’s just not safe.” crisis is drawing their attention to VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED Many synagogues are making Other synagogues went forward aspects of their communities that the decision to cancel or scale with their plans. Like those in the they don’t want to see change. FOR STUDIES THAT INVESTIGATE back gatherings, including regular Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex held On Saturday, Rabbi Mira services. Rabbi Barry Leff of their celebrations as usual. Rivera led services for about 10 BRAIN ACTIVITY AND MEMORY Herzl-Ner Tamid, a Conservative Ohev Sholom-the National people at Romemu, the Jewish synagogue just outside Seattle Synagogue in Washington, D.C., Renewal synagogue in New York on Mercer Island, Washington, an Orthodox congregation, held City where she serves as a rabbinic Studies involve monitoring of brain activity through an said he examined each event its regularly scheduled Purim fellow. Usually at least 100 imaging method called functional magnetic resonance individually before deciding celebrations both Monday and worshippers show up for Saturday imaging (fMRI) while you perform simple tasks. whether to proceed. Tuesday. But it also livestreamed morning services, but instead they Purim celebrations were the megillah readings for those were asked to watch via livestream. In order to take part, you must: canceled and people were urged who were unable to attend and “I really had to take a moment • Be between 18-30 or over 65 years of age. to watch the synagogue’s megillah recruited volunteers to give out of appreciation for our crowds, for reading online rather than attend. hamantaschen using serving community, for those things that • Have learned English in childhood. But the rabbi decided to utensils so that fewer people than we take for granted,” she said. “We • Be in good general health. go ahead with a bat mitzvah usual would touch the pastries take for granted that we’re going celebration last weekend because directly. to be many. We take for granted Dates and times for participating are exible. he felt it was harder to nix — the “One has to strike a very space.” bat mitzvah girl had spent a year careful balance with this type But others see a silver lining You will be compensated for your time and preparing her Torah portion and of thing between being safe and in the fact that the public health reimbursed for your travel. since there is a new portion every enacting proper precautions but crisis has caused them to take a For more information: week it would not be possible to also not inducing panic, and hard look at practices that were delay it. Canceling it would also we feel that we should follow ripe for revisiting. Email: [email protected] mean her family would incur government guidelines, that Last Shabbat, congregants who Call: 972-883-3748 or 972-883-3736 “substantial financial costs,” he we should not be doing more read from the Torah at Temple said in a sermon on Shabbat. than they recommend,” said Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, Still, turnout at the bat mitzvah Maharat Ruth Friedman, a clergy a Conservative synagogue in was lower than usual. And the member at the synagogue. “We Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, each synagogue hired servers for the completely understand what has used a chopstick rather than luncheon following the service to led communities to make that everyone sharing the yad, the avoid a buffet-style setup where decision [to cancel], it was just pointer that is traditionally used germs could more easily spread. not something that we felt was to follow along in the text. 972-883-3200 “These decisions are difficult essential.” “Passing the yad from one to because these are things that Communities without choices another is the same as shaking people look forward to and they’re came up with other innovations. hands. The germs pass, too,” important to use as a community, Members of Young Israel of New Cantor Alan Sokoloff wrote on but our priority is keeping Rochelle, an Orthodox synagogue Facebook, explaining why he had everyone healthy and safe,” Leff in the suburbs of New York substituted chopsticks. “After said. City, have been ordered to self- each reading, the reader took his Leff’s congregants had spent quarantine after a member was chopstick home and/or disposed This research is conducted under the direction of Michael Rugg, significant time working on a diagnosed with the coronavirus.