A rabbi in Rio de Janeiro was beaten by gang members inside a synagogue, where the rabbi’s family also resides. Rabbi Jacob Israel Blumenfeld said the three men who invaded his home in Rio’s Copacabana section likely followed him after he withdrew $100 from an automated bank-teller machine.
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