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BURIAL OF
NON-JEWS IN JEWISH CEMETERIES At a meeting in September 2005, Liberal Judaism's Council received a recommendation that cemeteries be created where Jews might be buried with their non-Jewish spouses or partners – regardless of gender – and, where appropriate, their children. The PJCEA Council, in support of Liberal Judaism, accepts the principle of burial of non-Jews in Jewish cemeteries. This is already possible, in principle, in the Jewish section of the cemetery at Caister (non-consecrated ground) although the PJCEA would not wish to pursue this, out of respect for those Jews already buried there, and their descendants. Nor does it consider it appropriate to pursue the burial of non-Jews at the Norwich City Cemetery on Bowthorpe Road — not only out of respect for those Jews already buried there, and their families, but also out of a genuine desire to maintain existing good relations with the Orthodox community in respect of the burial in Norwich of our members. — PJCEA Council, March 2006 |
