Eight rabbis were arrested and issued summonses for blocking traffic during a pro-humanitarian aid protest outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City on Monday. The demonstration, organized to protest the war in Gaza, marked a significant escalation, as it was the first time a group of rabbis from the Jewish community's political center risked arrest for this cause. Eleven rabbis participated in the civil disobedience, but only eight were apprehended due to a concurrent mass shooting response by the NYPD.

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