Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Chief rabbi: Missionary’s remains should be moved from Jewish Jerusalem cemetery

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/chief-rabbi-missionarys-remains-should-be-moved-from-jerusalem-jewish-cemetery/

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau suggested in a letter on Tuesday that the body of a Christian missionary who posed as an ultra-Orthodox Jew should be removed from a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.

“In order to respect all the Jews who purchased a plot of land with the knowledge that it is a cemetery of Jews and were buried there based on this belief, every effort must be made to remove [her] to the area of non-Jews,” wrote Refael Altman, the head of Lau’s office, in the name of the chief rabbi.

The letter suggested that if it is not possible to remove the body, “then a fence… must be built between the plot and the Jewish deceased” surrounding the grave.

 

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