Over 40 rabbis in Diaspora have died since coronavirus outbreak

The one reform rabbi known to have died is Rabbi Neil Kraft, the beloved rabbi of the Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue who passed away weeks before he was due to retire.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prayers are livestreamed from inside Temple Shir Shalom (photo credit: REUTERS)
Prayers are livestreamed from inside Temple Shir Shalom
(photo credit: REUTERS)
More than 40 rabbis have died as a result of the novel coronavirus, most of them located in the New York metropolitan area. While the majority of them came from the Orthodox Jewish community, there is one known case of a Reform rabbi who passed away as a result of the deadly virus, known as COVID-19. 
Right before he died from coronavirus, Rabbi Mordechai Gurary, who was a prominent figure in the New York Jewish community, made a video asking God to save the Jews from coronavirus: 
Below is a list of the 44 rabbis:
New York
Rabbi Michoel Tzvi Fettman, 39
Rabbi Berl Kohn, 95
Rabbi Aharon Leib Schneid
Rabbi Yeshaya Englard, 66
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Katz, (Boro Park-Linden), 71

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Rabbi Yisroel (Izzy) Fogel
Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Schmidt
Rabbi Yitzchok Banash, 50
Rabbi Mordechai Zev Halberstam, 42
Rabbi Dovid Don Reiss, 77
Rabbi Aharon Hersh Kleinman
Rabbi Yitzchak Warman, 91
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Grossman, 65
Rabbi Aryeh Roth
Rabbi Yisroel Menachem Rosenberg, 70
Rabbi Avraham (Romi) Kohn, 92
Rabbi Mordechai Zev Halberstadt
Rabbi Dovid Farkash
Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Hoenig, 48
Rabbi Boruch Hersh Feder, 73
Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Freund
Rabbi Slomo Zev Fried
Rabbi Yechiel Michel Rosenfeld
Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Kahana
Rabbi Mordechai Mendel Gutman, 55
Rabbi Shimon Susholtz
Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Speigel
Rabbi  Yisroel Yechezkel Plutchok
New Jersey
Rabbi  Avrohom Eliezer Gordon
Rabbi Avraham Levi Bressler
Rabbi Chaim Weil
Rabbi  Lipa Friedrich, Monsey, 39
Rabbi Pinchos Tzvi Elimelech Goldminzer
Rabbi Gershon Sabel
Rabbi Menachem Mordechai Nissim, 69
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Dovid Konikov, 58
Rabbi Mordechai Gurary, 84
Los Angeles
Rabbi Nachman Morgan
Montreal
Rabbi Avraham Yechiel Krauss, 67
London
Rabbi Uri Ashkenazi
Rabbi Neil Kraft
Paris
Rabbi Masoud Chumu, 72
Rabbi Masoud Tovol, 60