My first tattoo was a memorial to my religious grandfather. He was, and still is my role model; a wonderful live-and-let-live kind of human being. The tattoo is his name in hebrew on my bicep, and if you have a tattoo, you are not allowed to be buried in a Jewish cemetery. In this particular case, I cannot be buried on my family's plot where he is buried.

I gave it a lot of consideration, and I came to the conclusion that it was incredibly important to me to memorialize him, and then later my parents with tattoos as they truly would have wanted me to do whatever made me happy...even if it meant not being able to be buried by their side.

Photos of the tattoos are in the gallery under How*Nice. Peace to the Miami Ink crew and Yoni Z. at NY Adorned who has done all of the work.

Check again, I belive your wrong about that!
I saw a show on just this subject not to long ago.

Your saying that your Jewish right?

Then please check on that again I belive that you may be wrong.

Good luck with that..
Pops

My family is buried in a conservative cemetery...that's why I cannot be buried there. Recently, some reform cemeteries have allowed those with tattoos to be buried there; in some cases, the tattoos are even removed from the body so that burial can take place. It's very weird to me, and I don't agree with it but it's Jewish law.