Brazil’s president will attend Sabbath eve services at Latin America’s largest synagogue. In his appearance at Congregacao Israelita Paulista in Sao Paolo, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to denounce anti-Semitism and recent Holocaust denial by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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