I started watching this German rabbi praying alone early in the pandemic, and I couldn’t stop – JTA News
admin | June 1, 2020
(JTA) On a Friday early in the coronavirus crisis, isolated in my apartment and facing the first of what would be many weekends with only Netflix for companionship, I came across a live Facebook video of Rabbi Zsolt Balla praying alone from the pulpit of his synagogue in Leipzig, Germany. I had met Balla years before reporting for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Europe. I had attended Friday night services at the synagogue and a wedding a few days later the first Jewish nuptials held there since the Holocaust.
