Jewish woman suing to exhume a non-Jew from a cemetery plot.

[jorno67]

This is a sad story...

[link:http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2012/01/15/candiotti-jewish-cemetery-dispute.cnn|

[baldguy]

1. How much you want to bet it's more about skin color that faith?

[HillWilliam]

4. I was willing to be skeptical that might be the case until I watched the vid

The fact that the other board members have no problem and there are "nice" white folks who have reservations in the same section, it certainly seems as if she is indeed racist for singling Steer out. The "hey, look at me, I'm a social worker who has helped a few young black people" isn't convincing to me that she isn't.

[jorno67]

5. she came off as horribly racist to me

...It was funny when the reporter asked her if she was a racist like anyone would just say yes.

[HillWilliam]

19. They never admit it

One of the phrases that burns my ass the most is when someone starts out with "I'm not a racist but...". I know I'm going to hear something horrible I'd rather not.

She didn't come out and say it, but given that she's the only one with a problem -- and a problem with the only black occupant of the Interfaith section of the cemetery -- her case stinks.

[enlightenment]

2. That is not a nice person.

Nasty, in fact. I hope her own congregation muzzles her quickly and stops this nonsense.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. They won't.

There are some nasty people in the world.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. Racist woman suing to get a 'darkie' out of her cemetery...

should be the way it is rewritten. this is nothing about Jewish religion or ties to the congregation. if she objected so vehemently, at least she should have done it before she was interred...not that it would have been much better..

sP

[Marrah_G]

7. What a nasty, nasty woman

I think her motives are pretty clear.

[jorno67]

12. I hope she is forced to pay all of the legal fees

That man will incur trying to fight this.

[Marrah_G]

13. I agree

She is even suing her temple. I hope they ask her to leave.

[Cassandra]

8. Here in NYC...

there are huge cemeteries, Jewish, Christian, etc. The bylaws of the Jewish ones require Jews only. Even if it's the spouse of someone buried there, that doesn't count. Whether one belongs to any congregation is irrelevant.

[The Straight Story]

9. We have a really amazing Catholic cemetery here,

Never really wondered if the people in it were Catholics or not (ie, wife might be, husband wasn't). Can't imagine a place that would not bury family together.

[Sgent]

14. Judaism

has very strict requirements for burial and treatment of the deceased.

For instance, in New Orleans the Jewish cemeteries are the few that are actually above sea level, and are buried like elsewhere, instead of using cairn's.

[xchrom]

15. except this was the interfaith section.

it was created by the temple so that jews and non-jews could be buried there.

and the woman who wants to exhume even voted to create it -- though now she is claiming that non-jews must have 'ties? to the temple.

[Sgent]

16. Oh I wasn't defending here or the situation

I was just commenting on the fact that many Jewish cemeteries don't allow interfaith sections (including spouses, etc.)

[xchrom]

17. Ah. Got ya. Nt

[Ecumenist]

10. She sounds Hungarian...Honey, it don't rub off..

[abelenkpe]

11. what a petty hateful human being. nt

[FarCenter]

18. She doesn't have much support in the congregation

Race questions cloud lawsuit over Jewish cemetery

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hhA-LA8QtMqy2RY9zLnAjKGx5BDA?docId=86d66bfc663c4f25bd5f374ddb6f6ff6

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