Numbers, not names, mark graves at psychiatric hospital’s Jewish cemetery.
The Jewish cemetery is all that remains of the Central Islip Psychiatric Center, which was opened in 1889.
A number marks a Jewish grave, left, at the former Central Islip Psychiatric Center on New York's Long Island. A stone at right was added after the hospital began working with a Jewish burial society. (photo credit: Patricia Desrochers/Touro Law Center)BySTEWART AIN/JTA
