Rabbi Jay Kaufman, executive vice-president of B’nai B’rith, offered the opening prayer at the United States Senate yesterday. He quoted passages in Hebrew and English from Isaiah and the Talmud in calling for the wisdom “to find our way out of the toils of war.”
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