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List of local synagogues with in-person services grows


Suzanne Treviño has been watching Friday evening services online since Congregation Beth Israel stopped offering in-person services due to COVID-19.
“We’ve watched probably 90% of Shabbat services in the past year,” she said, “but it’s just not the same.”
Treviño, her husband and two kids have “desperately missed” the connection and community of in-person Shabbat services. Her 14-year-old daughter Kayla Treviño likes to sing with CBI Cantor Seth Ettinger.
“They often will do duets, and missing that music with the two of them together has been sad,” Suzanne Treviño said.
Kayla and Ettinger will be able to sing together again Friday, March 19, when CBI welcomes community members once again for in-person services. ....

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In LA and Arizona, Covid death surge overwhelms the Jewish community – J.


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 Covid-19 surge in California, which this week became the first U.S. state to report more than 3 million coronavirus cases since the outbreak of the pandemic. One million of those cases have occurred in Los Angeles County, home to America’s second-largest Jewish community with about 500,000 souls. More than 14,000 people have died in Los Angeles and hospital intensive care units are ....

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In LA and Arizona, COVID death surge overwhelms the Jewish community


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)
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(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 March filled to capacity with 40 corpses. ....

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