Religion & Beliefs

Kosher Salt: Jews with Tattoos

Fielding the same series of questions whenever someone sees my tattoos Read More

By / July 20, 2012
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Kosher Salt is Jewcy’s monthly comic about life as a blonde-haired, green-eyed, tattooed Jew.

Elizabeth Simins is a compulsive doodler living in New York. She splits her time between making paintings, being a production designer, and playing pretentious indie video games. She tweets here.

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  • notasheep

    Love the “taxidermist” response! Might have to use that with proper credit being given…

  • me

    :)

  • me

    Your’e my first Jewish friends….

  • me

    I like you guys…

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  • penina

    I don’t like tattoos but realize that people find them to be artistic. However, the first time I saw a Jewish person with numbers tattooed on their arm, I had a horrible stunned reaction of fear and nausea. I absolutely could never get a tattoo after having seen that. They’ve been branded like cattle. They had NO choice and they were dehumanized. So whenever I see a kid getting tattoos and they ask what I think, I tell them that it reminds me of the poor people I’ve known who had no choice and I can’t understand why they would hurts themselves and willingly mutilate their skin. It makes me very sad but I would never disrespect those who I have met and respect so much nor take my body for granted. It’s the same with all of the piercings and self mutilations. There are always temporary tattoos for silliness.

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  • Umish Katani

    Do you care where your buried once your dead… your dead.( unless of course you are coming back for a second go at it, happenned before so im told) and god forgives all the sins anyway right! so tats dont matter.. But to the living:, once im in the box no one but your supposed god will see me (according to you) and i will have been forgiven after 11 months in purgetory and kaddish.. Better yet, cremate me and poof no tats,… Who cares but the orthodox if you have a tat… Enjoy them its your life and your bod.

  • Itay, Israel

    they cut off the tattoo parts, if too many, you’re buried in a non-jewish cemetery.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=506858432 Eric Krasner

    As a Jew with a few tattoos, (not visible unless I walk around without a shirt, which never happens), I feel that as long as the tattoo is artistic, and not a number like the Nazi’s placed on our ancestors it’s OK, although some could say that replicating those old numbered tattoos would be some sort of artistic expression. Art? Maybe. Tasteless? Yes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501810667 Elli Thekingofbroadway

    http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/533444/jewish/Can-a-person-with-a-tattoo-be-buried-in-a-Jewish-cemetery.htm

    Can a person with a tattoo be buried in a Jewish cemetery?
    By Chani BenjaminsonQuestion:Is it true that if I have a tattoo I cannot be buried in an orthodox cemetery? I’m not referring to Holocaust markings.Answer:The Torah1 forbids us from tattooing our bodies. Nonetheless, one who has had tattoos can still buried in a Jewish cemetery.That said, every Jewish burial society has the right to enact its own criteria for who may and may not be buried in their plot. This stems from people’s desire (or right?) to be buried in proximity to others of their choosing. So while technically there is nothing in Jewish law which prohibits a tattooed person from being interred in a Jewish cemetery, certain burial societies — not the majority of them or even close — will not bury among their own a person who willingly tattooed him/herself, as it is a permanent exhibition of violation of Jewish Law.This practice by certain burial societies led to the common misconception that this ban was an inherent part of Jewish law.Chani Benjaminson,
    Chabad.org10 CommentsFOOTNOTES1.Leviticus 19:28.

  • Steve Felt

    Funny toons, your tats are cool and I don’t know about Jewish law too much and eve. had ignorant orthodox Jews tell me I’m not Jewish because my Mom converted before I was born. even though I had a bar mitzvaa.d the dumbass women are relegated to being second class citizens, I just think tats are for lower class people in general but .or always.