Approximately two dozen people gathered at the Reform movement’s rabbinical seminary in New York to honor those killed in the Iraq war. At Monday’s memorial ceremony at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, names were read of 5,708 Iraqi and coalition troops who have perished in the fighting, marking the third anniversary of the beginning of the war.
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