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 filled to ca
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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We have put on extra staff. I ve even brought my brother out of retirement, he s a retired embalmer, to come back and help us out.
There s a several week delay on making an arrangement and several weeks out on having a service.
Depending on a family s religion or rituals, they ve asked some if they re open to cremation with a memorial service set for a later date to not overwhelm the system.
On Jan. 17, The South Coast Air Quality Management District even issued an emergency order for crematoriums, allowing them to take care of their backlog, citing that the death toll is more than double pre-pandemic years.