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June 29, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801194.html

Russia Prosecutors Drop Jewish Text Inquiry

(AP/Washington Post) Henry Meyer - Prosecutors in Moscow dropped an inquiry Tuesday into whether a Russian translation of an ancient Jewish text incites national and religious hatred. Rabbi Berel Lazar said he had contacted prosecutors to explain that the Shulhan Arukh, a code of Jewish law compiled by Rabbi Joseph Caro in the mid-16th century, was not aimed at non-Jews, and to complain that officials seeking the probe had "anti-Semitic sentiments."

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