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Rabbi Pesach Lerner's First Hand Account
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I write this report from Yerushalayim where we spent a beautiful Sukkos holiday with our family. Beautiful until Shabbos Simchas Torah morning when news began to trickle out. The neighborhood we are in is all religious so no one was listening to the radio or checking their emails. So, the information was minimal, but enough to worry everyone. As the afternoon progressed, more news emerged. After havdalah, Motza'ei Shabbos/Yom Tov, we began to hear more detail, more horror, more deaths, more captives, more sorrow.
As everyone already knows, this was probably the worst day in Israel’s history. Close to 1, people were butchered and murdered, soldiers, men, women, kids, even babies; over people taken as captives, again, soldiers, men, women, children, we pray that Hashem protects them; and the over 2, people injured.
There is so much information missing; all the dead have not b
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Interview With Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Leader of the Effort to Free Pollard
Rabbi Pesach Lerner is Executive Vice President Emeritus of the National Council of Young Israel and a decades long advocate and activist on behalf of Jonathan Pollard. More than anyone, he kept the case alive and in the headlines, working heroically to seek freedom for the famous prisoner. We spoke to him on Monday.
How was Jonathan Pollard’s first Shabbos outside the prison, the first time in 30 years that he experienced a Shabbos as a free man?
I asked Jonathan that question when we spoke after Shabbos.
Jonathan hesitated for a moment and told me that at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, “federal agents from the regional parole board were in my apartment, fitting me with a GPS device that I must wear on my wrist 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They were explaining to me what I can and cannot do, where I can and cannot go. They were informing me of my apartment lockdown, that I am restricted to my small Manhattan
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