Jewish, Christian congregations leaderless due to COVID-19 deaths
Among the NY congregations were at least 60 different rabbis who died, with at least 20 of them being in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park.
An Orthodox Jewish man wears a mask while talking on a cellphone in the Orthodox Jewish community of the Borough Park neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 30, 2020.(photo credit: REUTERS/CAITLIN OCHS)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF