The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle dropped actor Leonard Nimoy from its Oct. 23 fund-raiser because of images in his book of photographs. The cover for Nimoy’s book, “Shekhina,” shows a woman wearing tefillin and her right breast visible through a translucent garment.
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