{"id":504,"date":"2008-07-14T19:52:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T02:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-07-20T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T16:09:58","slug":"tattoos-can-be-kosher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/07\/14\/tattoos-can-be-kosher\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoos can be kosher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-504\">\n<p>Aviva pointed out an interesting article in the NY Times on Jews and tattoos, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/17\/fashion\/17SKIN.html?scp=1&amp;sq=jewish%20tattoo&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">For Some Jews, It Only Sounds Like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTaboo&#8217;<\/a>.&#8221;  Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=239\">I got my tattoo<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been thinking about what effect that might have on my post-death options, so this article helped; for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The eight rabbinical scholars interviewed for this article, from institutions like the Jewish Theological Seminary and <a title=\"More articles about Yeshiva University\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/y\/yeshiva_university\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Yeshiva University<\/a>, said it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an urban legend, most likely started because a specific cemetery had a policy against tattoos. Jewish parents and grandparents picked up on it and over time, their distaste for tattoos was presented as scriptural doctrine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So apparently it depends on the cemetery, which is good (some won&#8217;t bury a partial convert like me either, but some do).<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I thought this paragraph of the article was interesting as well, especially since the mentioned practices are also considered wrong in Islam:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But he (Rabbi Alan Bright) noted that Jewish law prohibits many things that secular Jews do without a second thought. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Torah prohibits anything negative that affects the body,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Smoking is more of a violation of Jewish law.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As are drinking alcohol in excess and overeating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-504\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 504);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-504\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-504\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviva pointed out an interesting article in the NY Times on Jews and tattoos, &#8220;For Some Jews, It Only Sounds Like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTaboo&#8217;.&#8221; Since I got my tattoo, I&#8217;ve been thinking about what effect that might have on my post-death options, so this article helped; for example: &#8220;The eight rabbinical scholars interviewed for this article, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}