An interfaith group will donate an extra $2 million to the Jewish Agency for Israel. The International Fellowship for Christians and Jews will give $2 million above its normal $5 million to $6 million contribution to the Jewish Agency, its president, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, said Thursday at a meeting of the Jewish Agency’s board of governors in Jerusalem.
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