New York – Want to escape the craziness of an airport and find some quiet without paying for an airline club? Find the airport’s chapel.
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Many airports have small chapels, open to all for quiet meditation and prayer. Don’t go in there yapping on your cellphone or answering email on your computer. But as this week’s Middle Seat shows, airport chapels and chaplains can be a comfort to travelers as well as airport and airline workers.
Remember, that many people are traveling under unfortunate circumstances, perhaps to a funeral or to a hospital for medical treatment. And bad things happen to people while they are traveling – there are emergencies back home or emergencies in the sky.
“Do you need an airport chaplain?’’ asks Rabbi Bennett Rackman, one of the chaplains at New York’s Kennedy Airport. “Not every day. But you never know when.’’
Read more at Wall Street Journal (blog)
thought orthodox jews not allowed to go to chapels as they are equivalent to churches