Religious youth put an Israeli judge’s portrait on the cover of a mock Playboy magazine in an anti-porn protest. “Crusader for the Jewish Character of the State of Israel,” read the sardonic headline under the portrait of Dalia Dorner, who retired from the Supreme Court last week after ruling that mild pornography could be broadcast on cable television.
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