(JPost) Chief Rabbi David Lau has said that “every effort” should be made to exhume and rebury a Christian woman and covert missionary who was recently buried in a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.
The woman in question was buried in a multistory burial chamber above a Jewish woman since she was believed to be Jewish at the time.
Jewish law however prohibits Jews to be buried alongside non-Jews, and since the woman’s husband refuses to allow her to be exhumed and reburied, questions have arisen as to how to handle the situation.
Amanda Elk was the wife of covert missionary and Messianic Christian Michael Elk, who together posed as ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill for at least five years.