Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi is attending an interfaith meeting in Morocco, where representatives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are scheduled to discuss how their religious leaders can help forge world peace. The meeting will “condemn all kinds of violence and extremism,” said Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who is expected to visit the Jewish communities of Casablanca and Rabat.
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