Joel Cohen wanted his kids to receive instruction in their Jewish faith. But the closest synagogue was half an hour from his house in suburban Waldorf, Md. So Cohen did what any good dad would do: He opened the phone book and called everyone in the area with a Jewish-sounding name he could find, hoping others might help him form a social group to teach the Torah.
How do you find fellow Jews? In The phone book.
Jewish families living outside big cities use unorthodox ways to create congregations
Saturday, July 7, 2007 | 2:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 12:21 a.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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