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Last week, more than a thousand rabbis and Jewish leaders across the world signed a letter . While not directly addressed to the Israeli government, it calls for the country to end “the use and threat of starvation as a weapon of war.”

One of the people who signed the letter is Sarah Reines, a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan.

“We’re sensing a shift in so many different areas of society and around the world in terms of response to what’s happening in Gaza,” she said. “And I wanted to be part of this strong statement by so many rabbis and clergy around the world that what is happening is utterly unacceptable and needs to stop.”

On a recent episode of W

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