The religious leader of the largest fervently Orthodox organization in the United States called for an end to interpersonal conflict among Jews. But Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the religious head of Agudath Israel of America, also told attendees at the group’s 77th national convention in New Jersey over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, not to “overlook truth in the pursuit of peace.”
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