Norry supported caretaking, cleanup, and responsibility over a cemetery owned by the synagogue, navigating declining interest for those tasks among board-members.
[4] In 2002, Norry took a senior rabbi position with Congregation Shearith Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Atlanta, Georgia.
[5] Norry is a member of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership's Rabbis Without Borders program.
[8] Norry served as rabbinic consultant for Keeping the Faith, a romantic comedy released in 2000.
[2] Norry participates in martial arts and says he began self-defense after a man who had previously sent him antisemitic messages appeared at his synagogue and threatened him in person.
[1] As rabbi, Norry was accepting of congregants who brought concealed weapons to services, saying, "We have an armed security guard ... every Shabbat, but he's just one guy.