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Israeli court allows LGBT activist鈥檚 unorthodox burial
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The body of an Israeli transgender woman who committed suicide will be cremated despite her ultra-Orthodox family鈥檚 wishes, Israel鈥檚 Supreme Court ruled in documents obtained yesterday.
Before she killed herself earlier this month, May Peleg wrote in her will that she wanted to be cremated, a practice that Jewish law forbids. Her religious family took the request to court, which sided with Peleg鈥檚 representatives.
The court balanced Peleg鈥檚 wishes against her family鈥檚 desire for a Jewish burial, pitting religious law against individual rights and highlighting the contrasts between the country鈥檚 Jewish character and its often liberal orientation. Rabbinical authorities oversee the country鈥檚 Jewish burial practices, though a single crematorium is allowed to operate quietly.
Peleg, 31, was raised in an ultra-Orthodox community which shuns non-heterosexuals, and was estranged from her family. She was a prominent LGBT activist in Israel and her suicide elicited an outpouring of grief.
Peleg said she did not want a Jewish burial because the religion would not recognize her as a woman. 鈥淭his constitutes a lack of respect and an erasure of my identity,鈥 according to a statement released by her supporters.
Her will also stipulated that she wanted some of her ashes to be buried under a tree, where her two children could come to mourn.
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