“They seem to have created a situation where, assuming your building is big enough, you can have lots of people praying individually.
“But they’re not allowed to answer each other. What we want them to say is where congregational prayer is nothing other than responding to somebody else, then that is permitted.”
Mr Borowski said a number of shuls in Edinburgh and Glasgow — for example Giffnock and Newlands Synagogue — were large enough to accommodate people for socially distanced communal prayer and he had been making that case to the government for the past month.
A Scottish government spokesperson told the JC on Wednesday: “We must ensure people that enter places of worship to undertake congregational activities will be safe.
“We are working to ensure places of worship can reopen for congregational activities as soon as is safely possible.
“While we have been clear that we do not want these difficulties to last any longer than is necessary, we equally will not act in a way that puts our progress against this virus at risk.”
