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‘Under’s’ Rabbinic Supervision

\”Six Feet Under\” writer-producer Jill Soloway admits the HBO funeral parlor family drama is like a weekly commercial for taharah, the Jewish ritual of cleansing a dead body prior to burial.\n\nForget the no-open-casket Jewish tradition: On Alan Ball\’s quirky hit, words like \”skin slippage\” are de rigueur and corpses are regularly drained and made-up for display. \”It\’s pretty gross,\” concedes Temple Israel of Hollywood member Soloway, who\’s invented a rabbi character to proffer Jewish perspectives on death.\n\n

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