Being a Jew is reason enough for Tony Award-winning Marissa Jaret Winokur to disapprove her co-star Pamela Anderson’s love of tattoos.
She says, “I don’t think they’re sexy, I just don’t... At one point I wanted one and then I didn’t do it and I’m so glad I didn’t now. “I’m Jewish, so I can get buried now with my fiance... You can’t be buried in a Jewish cemetery with tattoos.”
The HAIRSPRAY star plays Anderson’s associate in hit US show STACKED. Anyway, Marissa it’s a personal choice; great to see that you have respect for your religion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Sorry, but the no tattoos in Jewish cemetary is incorrect; if not, what would we have done with all the concentration-camp survivors from WWII, with those numbers on their forearms?
Nope, the deal with being buried — whether in a Jewish cemetary, or not — is that a Jew must be buried whole, with all of his/her body parts. This is so that when the Messiah arrives (were still waiting) and the dead are resurrected, they will be complete. THIS is the reason you see Orthodox Jews picking up all bodyparts and scraps of tissue at the scene of a suicide bombing in Israel (otherwise, we could just hose-down the street and sidewalk, and be done).
Tattoos are expressly prohibited by the Torah (what others, incorrectly, call the Old Testament), but a tattooed Jew can still be buried in a Jewish cemetary. I will.
As far as concentration-camp survivors are concerned they were dummies in the hands of a dictator. I hope Marissa Jaret melts away her orthodox perception and get on with TIME, instead of passing silly comments on others passions.