"You could fill the sanctuary with your congregants who lost their homes," a reporter told Kehillat Israel's clergy.

Two blocks away: a school reduced to ruins. Across the street: rubble. Under the door: ashes. And yet at Kehillat Israel, things look much the same as they did at the beginning of the week, before the ...

Mordecai Zeitz, the emeritus rabbi at Congregation Beth Tikvah, a modern Orthodox synagogue ... expected services to be held inside on Wednesday evening. The synagogue was inviting non-congregants ...