Posted on 01/31/2006 8:00:34 PM PST by US admirer
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox rioted Tuesday in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Kiryat Ata in protest of an autopsy carried out on the body of a haredi woman who was found dead in her Kiryat Ata apartment at around midnight.
The woman, Frida Wiesel, was apparently murdered by burglars.
Using loudspeakers ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem called on the haredi public to protest with “total devotion” against the autopsy.
Zaka, an organization responsible for the recovery and identification of body parts, attempted to convince police not to perform the autopsy, but as foul play was suspected detectives in charge of the case filed a request for a court warrant authorizing the autopsy.
The court complied, and the autopsy was performed by the Institute of Forensic Medicine. According to Zaka officials, the autopsy was carried out in haste, thus preventing the organization an opportunity to appeal to the High Court on the matter.
Stones thrown at cars
Jerusalem’s Sabbath Square was closed to traffic after hundreds of haredim gathered at there and began setting fire to garbage cans. The protesters blocked the road and threw stones at passing cars.
Ultra-Orthodox men attacked a vehicle north of Jerusalem and threw tear gas on it, as riots in the area go on. The driver was rescued by the police.
The deceased haredi woman’s son-in-law is a well known figure in northern Israel due to his philanthropic activities, prompting scores of people to protest on his behalf.
Some 100 ultra-Orthodox protested outsides the Institute for Forensic Medicine in south Tel Aviv; they tried to break in through the institute gates and snatch the body, but police forces dispatched to the scene prevented their entrance; nine protesters were arrested in the incident.
The ultra-Orthodox community has traditionally opposed autopsies. According to several haredi sources, right-wing activists are attempting to increase tensions to steer the police’s focus away from Amona (illegal West Bank outpost).
“The slightest touch of a body causes great torment to the deceased person’s soul,” a yeshiva student explained, while a rabbi said that the Torah states that corpses should be treated with respect.
“Even the body of a man hanged in the square must be treated with respect,” the rabbi said.
“The problem is that during an autopsy parts of the body that are taken out are not buried; however, if the case involves disease or murder, then rabbis permit an autopsy.”
Police officials fail to understand the logic behind the riots. “The court authorized the autopsy, so from our standpoint the legal aspect of the case was closed and the body was transferred to the Institute for Forensic Medicine, as the usual procedure dictates,” one official said.
The Institute for Forensic Medicine said in a statement, “the institute received a court order authorizing the autopsy and acted in accordance with it.
Is there something in the water in the ME? Rioting because of an autopsy of a murdered woman?? What the hell is this goyim missing?
Good grief.
A while back Isreal agreed to trade some live Pali terrorists for some dead Jewish bodies, a trade that no doubt resulted in more dead Jewish bodies. I don't get it.
What's the deal here?
Screwy.
no less so than embalming corpses and then putting them on display before placing them in the ground to be devoured by worms.
Wow. You're into all KINDS of sick ____, aren't you?
There's some weird doctrine that the soul lingers for a certain number of days. St. Paul, who was quite the educated Orthodox of his day before becoming a Christian, had no use for that superstition -- rather, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. (Or for the damned, to go to hades)
Which, according to the bible, the Egyptians did with Joseph. Poor Joe, he had no clue how that was gonna hurt....
Actually, religious Jewish funerals occur very quickly, typically within 3 days of the death, sometimes even quicker. And the bodies are NEVER embalmed, and there's no viewing of the body: There's a seven day period of mourning, but it occurs after the funeral.
My grandfather wanted to be burried in his talit (prayer shawl), in a plain pine coffin. My family didn't feel comfortable with a "pauper's burial," so they did insist on a "nicer," stained coffin, but to honor his wishes, there was no metal in the coffin.
Mark
I know that. I was pointing out that some posters consider the Haredi customs "weird"... just pointing out that many Western customs re corpse handling may be seen pretty whacked to other cultures...
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecc 12:6-7KJV
Don't look for any sane explanation from these folks- there is none. Religious nuts are a greater threat to the world than any Stalin or Mao. The zealots go blindly and serenely to their deaths to protect their cause. They think you are not as good as them, you do not understand, you do not believe so you can not "know". And God forbid if you interfere with them be it trying to protect babies penises from the herpetic lips of a wacko rabbi or drive an car through their neighborhood on the Sabbath (unless of course you don't care about a cracked windshield or dented body from a hail of rocks. these folks are nuts. Reasoning is futile because they believe what they are told to believe whether it is wacko or not.
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