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(1982) On the 4th day of his week-long hunger strike and vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., comforts Shcharansky's wife, Avital, outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York.
RNS archive photo of the day
(1982) On the 4th day of his week-long hunger strike and vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., comforts Shcharansky's wife, Avital, outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York. Rabbi Weiss said that he views Shcharansky as a symbol of the Jewish people. Religion News Service file photo
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(1982) On the 4th day of his week-long hunger strike and vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., comforts Shcharansky's wife, Avital, outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York. Rabbi Weiss said that he views Shcharansky as a symbol of the Jewish people. Religion News Service file photo

(1982) On the 4th day of his week-long hunger strike and vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., comforts Shcharansky’s wife, Avital, outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York. Rabbi Weiss said that he views Shcharansky as a symbol of the Jewish people. Religion News Service file photo

Caption: (1982) On the 4th day of his week-long hunger strike and vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., comforts Shcharansky’s wife, Avital, outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York. Rabbi Weiss said that he views Shcharansky as a symbol of the Jewish people. Religion News Service file photo

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