U.S. conservative groups and talk show hosts are criticizing a decision by a Manhattan day school to ban celebrations of Mother’s and Father’s Day after a request from a gay parent. The Rodeph Sholom Day School is “being very narrow-minded,” Rabbi Sholem Bar-Hecht, of the Lubavitch National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, told the New York Post.
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