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Rabbi Paul Kipnes watched helplessly as 11 of his congregants died over the span of 11 days in January from COVID or COVID-related illness. The losses — along with another five congregant deaths that same month — compelled him to pour out his grief in a blog post titled “After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God.”
Synagogues touched by COVID adapt to serve grieving congregations (Wikimedia Commons) Advertisement (JTA) — Rabbi Paul Kipnes watched helplessly as 11 of his congregants died over the span of 11 days in January from COVID or COVID-related illness. The losses — along with another five congregant deaths that same month — compelled him to pour out his grief in a blog post titled “After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God.” “I’m so angry. At You, All Powerful One,” Kipnes wrote. “God damn You, God! … What kind of Divine develops a world defined during the ...
In Los Angeles, the Jewish funeral homes cannot keep up with the bodies.
In Los Angeles, the Jewish funeral homes cannot keep up with the bodies. Some family members are being forced to wait a week or even longer for burials. The city’s largest Jewish funeral home, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, rented a second 12-meter refrigerated truck last week to hold bodies with the one rented in March filled to capacity with 40 corpses. In some cases, funerals are being delayed because overwhelmed doctors too busy caring for patients at inundated hospitals don’t have time to fill out death certificates and burial permits. The culprit is the unprecedented Cov...
In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community January 20, 2021 2:47 pm A view of some of the graves at the Groman Eden Mortuary in Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, Calif. (Anthony Lampe) Advertisement (JTA) — In Los Angeles, the Jewish funeral homes cannot keep up with the bodies. Some family members are being forced to wait a week or even longer for burials. The city’s largest Jewish funeral home, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, rented a second 12-meter refrigerated truck last week to hold bodies with the one rented in Marc...