US delegation on religious freedom cut short its visit to Saudi Arabia after one of its members was asked to remove his Jewish head covering ( www.theguardian.com )
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said its delegation was near Riyadh visiting Diriyah, a historic town and Unesco world heritage site, when the commission’s chair, the Orthodox rabbi Abraham Cooper, “refused their requests that he remove his religious head covering”....
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