Rabbi David Saperstein and ice-cream icons Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfeld were arrested after protesting genocide in Sudan. Cohen and Greenfeld, of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame, joined Saperstein, the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Zach Rosenberg, its legislative assistant, in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington on Thursday.
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