Jewish groups slammed Dennis Prager for his attack on a congressman who plans to use a Koran in a private swearing-in ceremony. In his column this week Prager, a conservative talk-show host and author of a number of books on Judaism, rapped the plan by U.S. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), saying it would do “more damage to the unity of America and to the value system that has formed this country than the terrorists of 9-11.”
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