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Saturday, 28 June 2008 10:00

Haredi Protest in Sackloth and Ashes

At a counter-protest (to the ‘Gay’ march) in one of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods several hundred men gathered wearing ash on their foreheads and burlap sacks over their black suits in a Biblical ritual of repentance.

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