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Re: “A Title For Orthodox Women Spiritual Leaders?” Opinion, Nov. 17: I have a suggestion for a title, “Rabbi”! This whole controversy is just one more absurd indication of men trying (and succeeding) to usurp all the important roles, make all the decisions and retain their omnipotence in Judaism. The women who study and earn […]

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Re: “30 Years Later, ‘The Big Rally’ Is Little Remembered” (Nov. 17), actually, I remember it well and talk about it from time to time. I reconnected with people from all over the continent that I had not seen in years. It was, in the vernacular of the time, a “real happening.” And it apparently […]

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Kol hakavod to Gary Rosenblatt for his analysis of the massive Dec. 6, 1987 Soviet Jewry rally in Washington, D.C., in “30 Years Later, ‘The Big Rally’ Is Little Remembered” (Nov. 17). It was a crucial turning point, but certainly not the culmination of the Soviet Jewry campaign. What deeply bothers me is not the […]

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