Touro Law honors a 'never again' pledge with rededication of Central Islip Hospital's cemetery | The Jewish Star

When the first Jewish patient died on Rabbi Melvyn Lerer’s watch as chaplain at the Central Islip State Hospital in 1976, he was devastated. There was no tahara (preparation of the body for …

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