“When you hear that your zayde, who died in Auschwitz, has become a Mormon, well, baruch ha-shem!” — blessed be God! — “that’s just what he always wanted.”

It was Thursday morning, and Moshe Waldoks, rabbi of Temple Beth Zion, in Brookline, Mass., was reacting to the news that at least one Mormon was still baptizing Holocaust victims. He was joking, of course, as one might expect from a co-editor of “The Big Book of Jewish Humor.” Rabbi Waldoks hastened to add that his zayde, or grandfather, had never heard of Mormons.

Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints promised in 1995 to stop including Holocaust victims in its ritual, the church admitted last week that Anne Frank had been “baptized” in a Mormon church in the Dominican Republic. On Wednesday, The Boston Globe reported that Daniel Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, was baptized last June in Twin Falls, Idaho; Mr. Pearl was Jewish.

Also on Wednesday, the church released a letter reiterating its policy that “without exception, church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims.”