Published: 3 April 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
‘WE NEED HELP’: Brooklyn funeral home, burial society overwhelmed by coronavirus dead (Forward)
An Orthodox funeral home in Brooklyn, where a video shows nine shrouded bodies stacked on the floor, is so overwhelmed that last Tuesday it called for volunteers with minivans and SUVs to ferry the dead to cemeteries for burial
As coronavirus spreads in NY, these US Jewish communities pray they're not next (Haaretz)
Chicago, Boston, Miami and Washington have been identified as potential COVID-19 hot spots. All are hoping they can avoid the fate of New York’s Orthodox community
UK Jews overrepresented in coronavirus deaths, some theories as to why (Jerusalem Post)
The figures are raising concerns that British Jews are particularly at risk from the virus. They are also giving rise to multiple hypotheses to explain this reality, though none seem conclusive.
Photo: Brooklyn funeral home (Forward)
