Livre d'Or

FWIW, the services start with everyone taking a chair out into the courtyard. (With the exception of the recent run of two-day yomtovs, any virus on the chairs would no longer be viable between services (Friday nights are still by zoom).) And the toilets are still available inside, with signs on saying no more than two people at one time.

As for childcare, children are allowed to play outside; but (a) it would get boring for Rafi, (b) he's too young to run around and keep himself warm like the older children, and (c) it would get complicated with feeding him. (Before the pandemic, we all had lunch together in shul.) It's simplest just to keep him at home, especially as it's a 45 minute commute (without Rafi, longer with a pram) to shul; we moved so as to be within walking distance of the Masorti Kita (kindergarten), but that's a long way away from shul.