An Alaskan Jew is fighting the state’s embalming laws. Dead bodies may not cross Alaska’s borders unless they are embalmed, a process that is forbidden under Jewish law. After Sheryl Weinberg of Juneau had to fight for a waiver to allow her mother to be buried next to her father in Arizona, she has taken the battle to the state legislature.
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