It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S.
The event was organized by Ach Gadol (Big Brother for Lone Soldiers), a nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentorship and community support for soldiers serving in Israel without immediate family.

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During Korban Pesach, the houses themselves assumed the character of a “private Mizbeach" (see Pesachim 96a). The Targum Yonatan (Shmot 19:4) even brings a midrash that Am Yisrael were carried to the ...
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