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Meet Hyman Judah Schachtel, the Anti-Zionist Rabbi of Houston

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In 1943, a wealthy Houston temple wrote seven rules disowning Zionism and Jewish nationhood outright, and someone dubbed them the Jurenberg Laws. The fallout made Time and The New York Times, split the congregation for a generation, and briefly outweighed news from Nazi Europe in the Jewish press.

— via Literary Hub, Benjamin Moser

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