Synagogues, Hadassah chapters and Jewish mothers from all over the United States joined the Million Mom March for gun safety Sunday in Washington. “Controlling guns is not only a political matter. It is a solemn religious obligation,” the president of the Reform movement’s Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Eric Yoffie, told the marchers.
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