The Temple Sinai in Atlanta sent an email this week to invite its congregants back to in-person Shabbat services – they'd been virtual for weeks because of COVID-19.
"We recognize that the current trends concerning COVID-19 are but one of the sources of concern on people's minds at present," the email said.
Now, in the days following the hostages' escape, leaders of the faith community have revisited calls to double funding for the security grant program, from $180 million to $360 million."We've heard from many, many different faiths in many different parts of the community about the need for greater funding," Mayorkas said Thursday. Among leaders in the Jewish community, funding boosts to the grant program remained the No. 1 request this week, he said.
Established in 2016 at $25 million, funding for the program has ticked up over the years, doubling from $90 million in 2020 to $180 million last year. Joshua Davidson, Senior Rabbi at the Congregation Emanu-El of New York, which has a 2,500-seat amphitheater, said he has long been concerned about smaller congregations around the country "that can't afford the security apparatus… that offers the safety their worshippers have a right to expect."
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