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September 10, 2002

Some rabbis are heeding a nationwide call by the group Rabbis for Human Rights, which is urging liberal Jewish leaders during these High Holidays to condemn human rights violations by Palestinians and Israelis alike.

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A renewed call to change Israel’s Law of Return is turning the spotlight on the former Soviet Union, which has been the source of nearly 1 million immigrants since the late 1980s. As many as a quarter of them are not Jews according to religious law,

Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner offers his thoughts on the ritual transition from the final blast of the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur and the first nail hammered into the frame of a sukkah to commence Sukkot.

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