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Talmud Calls for Universal Health Care

Says Reform movement leader
By Marissa Brostoff | 4:17 PM Aug 12, 2009

This week, the head of the Reform movement’s political arm, Rabbi David Saperstein, helped launch an effort by progressive religious leaders to get President Barack Obama’s health care plan passed in Congress; the president’s agreed to join the group in a call-in webcast on August 19. Saperstein and liberal Rev. Jennifer Butler appeared this morning ...