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defacto7

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10. I agree.

Reply to liberalhistorian (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 05:43 PM

Nov 2013

and I am more than a tad bit upset myself. It's a Rabbinical court decision... I wonder if that trumps government court decisions in Israel or areas of Israel? Maybe parents have the right to leave their sect and be done with it. I don't know.

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