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Rabbi, Why Should I Vote?

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Yesterday, at an Uri L’Tzedek lecture on “the power of the Jewish vote,” I came across an amazing, little-known bit of Jewish responsa literature. This teshuva—literally, an “answer” given to a question asked by the Jewish community—was penned on October 3, 1984 by Rabbi Moses Feinstein, Orthodox Jewry’s foremost modern...

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