Daniel Pearl

COMMENTARY: The problem with Daniel Pearl’s Mormon baptism

By Tracy Gordon — March 2, 2012

(RNS) The posthumous Mormon baptism of slain journalist Daniel Pearl shows that it's not just the proxy "baptism" of Holocaust victims that is problematic. Because of Judaism's communal sense of identity, performing this ritual for any Jews without their community's consent, raises basic questions of fairness and respect. By Philip A. Cunningham.

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