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Court Overrules Jewish Cemetery's Objections To Moving of Body

By Howard M. Friedman

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An Allegheny County, Pennsylvania court has overruled the objections of a Jewish cemetery and permitted the body of a man who died almost 45 years ago to be reburied elsewhere as requested by his family. Yesterday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on the dispute between the Orthodox Jewish Poale Zedeck cemetery and Howard Tobin's widow (recently deceased)and daughter, who want their husband and father moved to the Star of David section of Homewood Cemetery where Tobin's widow also bought plots for herself and their son who died in 2008. The cemetery's refusal is based on Jewish religious law that only allows bodies to be moved for limited reasons. The court said that the family's interest outweighs that of the cemetery.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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