(TIMES OF ISRAEL) — JERICHO, New York — The last time a bar or bat mitzvah read from the Torah at the Jericho Jewish Center was well before COVID-19. It’s been at least four years since a full-time cantor sang from the Conservative Long Island synagogue’s pulpit. And except for Shabbat, it no longer supports morning prayers.
These are perhaps the starkest examples of how the center, known as JJC, has changed over the last 25 years. It’s also why the majority of the synagogue’s members believed consolidating with the nearby Conservative Woodbury Jewish Center was the key to saving it.
Yet, although an overwhelming majority of congregants favored the plan, the merger between the two Conservative synagogues, located a mere five miles apart, failed.
