Why I Need To Be/Think/Write Free.

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Rav Yosef Kanefsky

January 16, 2012

“The first of the bill of rights for a frumme yid (religious Jew) is not freedom of speech! There is NO freedom of speech and freedom to write in our constitution [the Ten Commandments]!” This was the fiery climax of Rabbi Shimshon Sherer’s talk at the Agudah convention last November. His comments were directed at Rabbi Nosson Slifken specifically (

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