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September 7, 2001
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An Egyptian court banned a Jewish festival that takes place at a pilgrimage site because it says the festival endangers public morals. In the past two decades, thousands of Jews have visited the tomb of a 19th-century Moroccan Jew for an eight-day pilgrimage.

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