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 Nelson Mandela’s support for Yasir Arafat and the PLO and his membership in The Elders are not just minor parts of his legacy and certainly do distract from the good he did (“The Mandela Legacy,” Editorial, Dec. 13). In 1990, Mandela likened Israel to a “terrorist state” and declared that “we do not regard the […]

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Regarding “New Agunah Court Could Hinge On Haredi Rabbis” (Dec. 13): Throughout the centuries there have been various takanahs [decrees] involving divorce. 
During the Babylonian period there was a more liberal view regarding divorce
and during the time of the Rambam a stricter adherence in giving a
divorce. During the 19th century in Germany there was a […]

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