John Kerry urged the U.S. Coast Guard to allow a Chasidic Jew to wear a yarmulke while on duty. The Massachusetts senator wrote a letter Wednesday to the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard in defense of Jack Rosenberg of Spring Valley, N.Y.
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