Friday, September 16, 2005

The death of (british) Reform Judaism:

England's Reform Judaism in their never ending quest to be "compassionate" and inclusive are now going after the dead.

From the English website, Totaly Jewish

Liberal Judaism is set to sanction interfaith burials in Jewish cemeteries for the first time. It means non-Jewish wives or husbands will be able to be interred with their Jewish spouses.
A landmark recommendation, which is expected to be passed at the organisations council this month, recommends that provision is made to ensure that established partners who have not converted are not separated after death.

...would also pave the way for the children of mixed-faith marriages to be buried in the same cemetery as their parents.The proposed move, which has the unanimous backing of Liberal Judaisms officers and rabbinic conference, goes a step further than the current policy of the Movement for Reform Judaism, which ruled that non-Jews and their spouses could be buried together only in a dedicated section of a graveyard, separated from the main cemetery by a path or hedge...
Liberal Judaisms Chief Executive, Rabbi Danny Rich, said he viewed such a separation as abhorrent, insisting that the new proposal rejects the current divisiveness which could imply there are two classes of people buried.He told TJ: It is a policy one might argue is long overdue. A number of individual synagogues already carry out the policy and, bearing in mind Liberal Judaisms inclusive nature when a Jew and a non-Jew are alive, it would seem cruel and ironic to part in death a couple we had sought to nurture in life.Rabbi Rich said the move would be in accordance with the bodys current policies, including offering a sympathetic and encouraging conversion process, participating in the affirming of Jewish identity in a relationship where only one partner is Jewish. ...

Putting another halacha (and their tradition) to sleep.
posted by Yeshiva Orthodoxy
at 1:56 AM

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