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In all the excitement about Natan Sharansky’s proposal for the Kotel (“Equal Prayer At Western Wall” and Editorial, April 20), the following is forgotten: It banishes the Torah from the women’s section at the Kotel and, ironically, also banishes the Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Renewal denominations from the Kotel. Why is this being greeted as […]

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Pierre Sussman did not respond to an inquiry from The Jewish Week. To say that were it not for the Kings County District Attorney’s office, David Ranta would still be in jail conveniently ignores the fact that it was this very same district attorney whose prosecutors used highly questionable evidence to put Ranta in jail […]

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Many of the questions in “DA’s Role in Rabbi’s 1990 Murder Case Under Scrutiny” (April 5) could have been answered by speaking to the attorney for David Ranta [who was freed recently for a wrongful conviction in the 1990 murder of a chasidic rabbi  in Brooklyn] or reading the public documents. The article’s analysis by […]

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