A special religious service was celebrated Saturday in synagogues throughout France in memory of the four Jewish women killed in Damascus recently. In celebrating the special service. French Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan declared that the French Jewish community “will accept as its own the mourning of their families.”
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