The committee, part of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, adopts opinions with the approval of six or more members, but those opinions are not binding for Conservative rabbis and their communities. “They do it in consultation with the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, but there’s many inputs that make up that decision.” “What we’ve learned over the last several years is there’s all different ways that clergy make decisions for their community,” Ain said.
But she said Sutton Place, like Beth El a Conservative synagogue, is committed to making sure community members feel included even when they are joining from home - even if that means departing at times from the guidelines set by the movement. Rabbi Rachel Ain of Sutton Place Synagogue in New York City, which uses both Zoom and passive streaming to supplement in-person services, declined to comment on the incident at Beth El. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA.org) But many synagogues prefer a two-way stream like Zoom, since it allows people to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish aloud or lead the congregation in prayer.Ī family takes part in shiva via Zoom on April 11, 2020. Some Conservative synagogues stream using passive technology in which only the prayer leaders are seen. Orthodox synagogues do not use digital technology on Shabbat and Reform synagogues would not be hamstrung by the inability to intervene if needed. That problem is one that could arise only at the subset of Conservative synagogues that employ Zoom as their streaming platform.
She added, “To clarify - nobody who worked at the synagogue would pick up the phone to monitor zoom.” “Nobody would pick up the phone to put a stop to it because it was the sabbath so it went on for 45 minutes,” she wrote. A synagogue administrator also declined to comment to the New York Post.īut on Twitter, a woman who identified herself as a Beth El congregant suggested that adherence to Jewish law, rather than tech ineptitude, was the reason the incident went as long as it did.
It’s astonishing to me how many people still don’t really know how to mute or unmute their microphones.”īeth El declined JTA’s request for comment about the incident and the way the synagogue manages virtual services. “But we’re still babies at this, learning how to do this. “I feel terrible for the couple who’ve had their name smeared, or at least their images smeared,” said Rabbi David Paskin, who works at a Florida synagogue and also consults, as Torah Tech Guy, with Jewish groups on technology issues. That may be the reason why the couple was reportedly able to broadcast themselves for 45 minutes, according to the Post, with no one from the synagogue intervening to stop them or remove them from the Zoom meeting. The New York Post printed a blurred screenshot of the couple who engaged in synagogue Zoom sexual activity.
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