Israel’s Chief Rabbinate assailed the country’s sole crematorium. The Jewish state’s top clerical body issued a statement this week urging burial societies to shun Alei Shalechet, a private cremation service that began operation last week, and said relatives of those whose bodies are burned are considered exempt from sitting shiva or saying Kaddish.
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