A Jewish organization is cosponsoring a world day of fasting to bring attention to the suffering of the people of North Korea. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, a board member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is an honorary chair of Friday’s event. North Korean children are dying at the rate of 10,000 per month because of the famine there, according to the German Red Cross.
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