SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 | 39

Rabbinic Innovation, 
Hadar, JewBelong and 
the Institute for Jewish 
Spirituality.

COVID PRECAUTIONS
Lauren Hoffman, who’
s 
been an ambassador of 
Jewish communal orga-
nizations such as Moishe 
House in the past, has 
been a OneTable host 
for just over a year now. 
Hoffman says the platform 
is recommending dinner 
hosts and guests follow 
necessary precautions.
“They’
re trying to 
encourage their hosts 
to take the pandemic as 
seriously as they are,” 
Hoffman said. “These 
days you can’
t have a 
big potluck, and they’
re 
encouraging bringing your 
own food or catering in 
individual servings, and to 
only gather outside and at 
a distance.”
Hoffman, who’
s been 
to Rosh Hashanah seders 
but has never hosted 
one before, is hoping 
to change that this year 
through HereFor, and is 
eager to adapt to a High 
Holidays for the ages.
“Especially this year, 
because so many of the 
things that characterize 
what the High Holidays 
have looked like in every 
year prior of my life are 
no longer acceptable, I’
m 
very interested in finding 
alternate ways to make 
some meaning out of this 
season and to really feel 
like it’
s Rosh Hashanah 
and Yom Kippur and 
Sukkot.” 

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