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Norman Lamm

"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."

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"As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year."

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"In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study."

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"I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way."

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"Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement."

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