Two Orthodox Jews die of coronavirus in London, another succumbs in Paris

Rabbi Ze’ev Willy Stern, a Holocaust survivor, was 86 when he died over the weekend. One of his children is in the hospital and receiving intensive care for complications connected to the virus.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand in a street in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill in the UK; illustrative.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand in a street in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill in the UK; illustrative.

(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

MARCH 23, 2020 03:49