'My rabbi's tools now include a phone': UK Jewish burials changed by Covid-19

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'My rabbi's tools now include a phone': UK Jewish burials changed by Covid-19
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Mourners not able to observe usual rituals, as figures suggest community being hit disproportionately

Minutes before the rabbi started intoning funeral prayers over a shrouded coffin, his phone rang. The dead man: 90 years old, a victim of coronavirus, had been lying in a morgue for a couple of weeks while the authorities and his synagogue had tried to trace his relatives.

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