NEW YORK SUN
A Prayer for America
Editorial Board
July 16, 2016

…Those are the opening words of an invocation that was to have been offered Monday at the Republican National Convention by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein. One of America’s most respected Jewish leaders, he is rabbi emeritus of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, a Modern Orthodox synagogue at New York. Yet in the face of protests by anti-Trump elements, including members of the rabbi’s own community, the rabbi has asked not to be held to his commitment to offer a prayer in Cleveland. READ MORE