A group of the nations most prominent rabbis gathered in Washington, D.C. today to express their dismay and concern over the premature imprisonment of Sholom Rubashkin, urging the U.S. Department of Justice to closely scrutinize the demands by federal prosecutors in Iowa that Rubashkin be imprisoned before he is sentenced. Rabbi Pesach Lerner of the National Council of Young Israel starts the news conference, held at the National Press Club.
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