More than 2,000 Orthodox female high school students gathered last week at a wedding hall in Brooklyn, N.Y., to learn how to avoid using lashon hara, or evil gossip. The meeting was organized by the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation, which is devoted to disseminating the message of the late Torah sage for whom the foundation is named.
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