Dancers from six countries spent the weekend in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at what is considered the largest Israeli folk dance festival outside Israel. Some 3,200 dancers — mostly youths — from Argentina, Mexico, Panama, United States, Venezuela and Brazil gathered in Sao Paulo’s plush Hebraica club over the weekend at the annual Carmel Festival.
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