The Jerusalem Jewish community’s religious board has instructed chevroth kadisha (burial societies) not to attend corpses showing signs of having undergone post-mortem operations before informing the religious authorities.
Rabbi Aslanski of the religious board said the measure was directed against the Hadassah-Rothschild-Hebrew University Medical Center, which allegedly used Jewish corpses for scientific purposes.
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