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Shades of gray: a conservative Cuban rabbi takes on race issues that could have powerful implications for Jews and Latinos.(Rigoberto Emmanuel Vinas)
His knitted skullcap tells the world he is a religious Jew. His name, Rigoberto Emmanuel Vinas, tells the world he is Latino.
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For as long as he can remember, Rabbi Vinas has answered a battery of questions about his identity. Sometimes, the answers have become a bit cut and dry. His parents emigrated from Cuba, he went to religious schools and received rabbinical ordination. He votes like a Cuban in Southern Florida and leads a racially-mixed synagogue in Yonkers, New York. All of it is true, but the cursory answer just leads to more questions.
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