Orthodox Jewish leaders urge High Holiday emphasis on standards - Rabbis’ arrests raise ethics focus

Oklahoman ^ | 26 September 2009 | Jeff Diamant

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In an unusual move, a group of influential Orthodox Jewish leaders wrote a letter urging American rabbis to speak during this year’s High Holidays on the importance of ethical living, in response to some recent high-profile arrests of Jews, including two New Jersey rabbis in July.

In the letter sent to about 2,000 rabbis nationwide, the leaders of Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America cited "the recent scenes of religious Jews being led off in handcuffs, charged with corruption, money laundering, and even organ trafficking.”

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The orthodox are left to clean up the mess of everyone else.

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Hey! That spacecraft looks...oddly wrong.

If only the planet of New Israel existed in the Star Trek Universe!

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that spacecraft has training wheels

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