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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tattoos - Take Two
A while back, we talked about Chana Ben-Zecharia's question whether it is true that someone with a tattoo may not be buried in a Jewish cemetary. Mrs. Sinensky replied that there is no such restiction. Jewish Action recently addressed the same issue in it's regular feature, "What’s the Truth about . . ." in which Rabbi Ari Z. Zivotofsky explains a different misconception about Judaism each month. He confirms that the entire notion is a myth.
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