Two New York City rabbis die of coronavirus
March 24, 2020 | Aiden Pink

Two New York City rabbis have died of coronavirus.

Rabbi Romi Cohn of Staten Island, a 92-year-old and Holocaust survivor
who had fought as a partisan in World War II, succumbed to the disease,
the website The Yeshiva World reported.
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Cohn was also a mohel who performed thousands of circumcisions free of charge
and trained hundreds of mohels himself.
He gave the opening prayer at the House of Representatives
in January on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer of Queens also died as a result of complications
from the virus, The Yeshiva World reported.
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Meltzer, 60, was also a physician assistant and was a member of the Queens Hatzolah,
the local J^wish volunteer paramedic organization, for 35 years,
according to Yeshiva World.
Family members told the organization that Meltzer also had a heart condition. ...