EditorialMourners gather in front of Q Club, where at least five people were killed in a shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Nov. 21, 2022. (Joanna Kulesza/The New York Times)
EditorialRabbi Philip Hiat, left, and others in 1981 examining Torah scrolls salvaged from Polish synagogues that were destroyed during the Nazi occupation. (Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times)
EditorialAs a teenager, Kariv was impressed that men and women could pray side by side at Reform synagogues, unlike the Orthodox synagogues he was familiar with. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Canton Synagogue, built in Venice, Italy in 1532, whose gilded woodwork, curtains and lamps are being cleaned and restored, April 21, 2022. (Gus Powell/The New York Times)
EditorialVaccinated congregants stand for prayer in he main sanctuary during a Friday evening service at Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Sept. 3, 2021. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialA nun sanitizes pews between Sunday services at St. Agatha Roman Catholic Church in New York, Oct. 24, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialA protest of mostly Orthodox Jewish residents against new coronavirus restrictions on synagogues, schools, restaurants and nonessential businesses, in the Borough park neighborhood of Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialA protest of mostly Orthodox Jewish residents against new coronavirus restrictions on synagogues, schools, restaurants and nonessential businesses, in the Borough park neighborhood of Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialJames Tisch, a shofar blower from Central Synagogue in Manhattan, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, Aug. 17, 2020, where he was recorded blowing a shofar that was used at Auschwitz. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialA parishioner uses hand sanitizer after a service at Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis on March 2, 2020. (Leah Klafczynski/The New York Times)