Jewish prayers for the buried at Central Islip Psychiatric Center newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 …
In the cemetery of the now-defunct Central Islip Psychiatric Center, markers for the interred lack names. A nearby Jewish law school is helping relatives identify loved ones
Numbers mark the graves at a former psychiatric hospital s Jewish cemetery Families want names - and answers jta.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jta.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.