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A rabbi’s fight against a state funeral board over Jewish burial

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August 23, 2012

Today on Tablet, Ben Cohen has the story of David Wasserman, the Pennsylvania rabbi who is leading the fight against the state’s Funeral Board. In Pennsylvania, a law requires mourners to use a commercial funeral director for burials, limiting the rabbinic control that Jewish law needed of funerals.

Check out the story here.

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