By Carol Wolf Solomon, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 22, 2019
GODFREY, Ill. — I have been in this place before. On this Friday night, Aug. 16, I am worshipping with a small, tight-knit congregation that is soon to be no more. This Kabbalat Shabbat service is bittersweet. Tonight Temple Israel of Godfrey, Ill.,...
An Israeli hotel denied the use of a Torah scroll to a group that intended to use it in a mixed-gender service. The religious supervisor at the hotel at Kibbutz Shefayim refused to allow a group of students from the Conservative Solomon Schechter Day...
