Mount Richmond Cemetery on Staten Island is run by the Hebrew Free Burial Association, which buries Jews who die with little or nothing. The association stocked up on caskets before the coronavirus unleashed its worst, just as they did with protective gear for workers and garments for the dead. They were used to burying one person on an average day. A “crazy day” would be five, said Amy Koplow, who runs Hebrew Free Burial. The other day, they put 11 people in the ground.
Between travel restrictions and potentially exposed family members kept in isolation, many funerals now have no mourners on site. When they do, they are prohibited from gathering at the graveside, instead listening to rushed services by phone from cars parked 50 feet away. (David Goldman and Matt Sedensky/AP-U.S. News)
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I was at a levaya last week in a Long Island bais hachayim. From when the hearse came to the main office to get the paperwork until we got to the gravesite took over an hour. There were nebech about thirty (30) people waiting to be buried just at that time. Hashem yishmor
I was a place they had 50.