rabbi demands that Christian woman be ripped from her grave

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'Exhume Christian missionary from Jewish plot,' chief rabbi says
Amanda Elk was a covert Christian missionary and is buried in a Jewish cemetery. Her husband is refusing to rebury her in a non-Jewish cemetery.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/chief-rabbi-exhume-christian-missionary-from-jewish-plot-671767

Chief Rabbi David Lau has said that "every effort" should be made to exhume and rebury a Christian woman and covert missionary who was recently buried in a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.

The woman in question was buried in a multistory burial chamber above a Jewish woman since she was believed to be Jewish at the time.

Jewish law however prohibits Jews to be buried alongside non-Jews, and since the woman's husband refuses to allow her to be exhumed and reburied, questions have arisen as to how to handle the situation.

Amanda Elk  was the wife of covert missionary and Messianic Christian Michael Elk, who together posed as ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill for at least five years.

Michael Elk obtained an online rabbinic ordination, and pretended to be a rabbi while also serving as a scribe and mohel, and providing these religious services to members of his community.

His wife Amanda died in February this year, and an incident with his daughter who attended an ultra-Orthodox school eventually led to both Michael Elk's exposure as a missionary and a non-Jew, and the fact that Amanda was also not Jewish.

Since Elk was at the time of Amanda's death still feigning to be Jewish he had his wife buried in a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.

She was buried in a multistory burial plot in which several rows of burial chambers are built one on top of the other.
In one of the rows below Amanda Elk is buried a Jewish woman.

But Jewish law forbids burying non-Jews in the same plot as Jews, which has given rise to questions as to how to deal with the current situation.

In a letter published to the head of the burial society which operates in the cemetery, Lau said that the ideal solution would be to remove Amanda Elk's body from the cemetery and rebury her in a non-Jewish cemetery.

"This is a non-Jewish woman who pretended to be an ultra-Orthodox woman, and was a missionary, and even tried to convert people away from Judaism," wrote Lau.

"Out of respect to the Jews who bought a burial plot in order to be interred in a Jewish plot and were buried in accordance with these wishes, every effort should be made to remove her [Elk] to a non-Jewish plot," said the chief rabbi.

Lau said that if this were not possible a fence should be erected between Elk's burial place and those of Jews interred at the same place.

It is not clear however how that would be possible given the multistory burial plot in which both women were interred.

In a similar situation several years ago in Rishon Lezion, the High Court of Justice refused to allow a Christian to be
exhumed from their grave.

Lau's comments come following an exhaustive ruling published at the beginning of June by Rabbi Shlomo Shraga, head of the Baruch She'amar yeshiva and son of the noted rabbinical judge Rabbi Baruch Shraga, who also ruled that it would be preferable to exhume Elk and move her to a non-Jewish plot.

Shraga ruled that since the High Court has made it clear that it is not possible in such cases to exhume the non-Jew, the Jewish person buried in the same plot should be exhumed and reburied instead.

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef endorsed Shraga's ruling.

[abduLMaria]

Jews only Care about Jews.

Even when they're Dead (which is a dramatic improvement for a Jew.)

Time to dig up all the Jewish graves in the area of WW2 Germany.

According to their mythology there should be 6 million Jewish skulls.

[yankeedoodle]

Jews only Care about Jews.

Even when they're Dead (which is a dramatic improvement for a Jew.)

Time to dig up all the Jewish graves in the area of WW2 Germany.

According to their mythology there should be 6 million Jewish skulls.

Not a chance!  See, they claim they have a non-jewish fool teaching the - the European name for people otherwise known as gypsies https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rom - about the holohoax!  Isn't that wonderful!

Of course, the Roma were victims of the concentration camps, so wonder why this "educator" isn't teaching these Roma kids in Roma cemeteries.  And, instead of teaching about the holohoax, wonder why he isn't teaching them math and other academic subjects that would help them.   

In Slovakia, a retired non-Jewish educator teaches Roma teens about the Holocaust at Jewish cemeteries
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/in-slovakia-a-retired-non-jewish-educator-teaches-roma-teens-about-the-holocaust-at-jewish-cemeteries

(JTA) — An activist attempting to preserve Jewish cemeteries in Slovakia has recruited several Roma teenagers to help with the task.

Vladimir Spanik, 73, involved the teenagers in cleaning up the Jewish cemetery of Vinodol, a town located some 40 miles east of the capital Bratislava, Reuters reported last week. Spanik has been volunteering to help motivate the teens to improve their socioeconomic situation.

"Part of it was that they wanted to help an old man," said the retired educator, who is neither Jewish nor Roma. "But for me the main point is for them to learn about the Holocaust and the extremely painful moment it has been for so many Jews and Roma."

One of the teenagers, Franko Lakatos, said part of the work is digging and locating headstones that sank into the soft ground or became overgrown with weeds and climbing plants. The absence of fencing around most Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe contributes to vandalism. In 2019, dozens of tombstones were destroyed at the Jewish cemetery of Namestovo in Slovakia.

What is now Slovakia was home to about 100,000 Jews before the Holocaust. Today the local Jewish community has about 3,000 members.

Jewish organizations there have enough resources for preserving about 150 Jewish cemeteries among the approximately 750 that are scattered in that country, their leaders have said.

In addition to about 6 millions Jews, the Nazis and their collaborators killed between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma people during World War II, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.