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Jun 20, 2007
Quickie Link: Haredi Leaders Want Protests To Stop
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By vanrozenheim
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(Jerusalem, Israel) - In a serious blow to the anti-gay pride parade campaign, leading haredi rabbis and yeshiva heads, appalled at the property damage and violence perpetrated by religious zealots in recent days, prohibited their followers on Tuesday from holding any more street demonstrations. An announcement on the front page of Yated Ne'eman, a haredi daily and the mouthpiece of Lithuanian haredi rabbinic leadership in Israel, warned yeshiva students not to take part in the demonstrations. "We don't want our yeshiva students to get the wrong idea that the Torah permits the destruction of property" said Rabbi Nahum Eisenstein.
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