New Jersey members of the U.S. Congress, Rutgers University leaders and a French diplomat joined thousands of students in commemorating the life of Ilan Halimi. French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte pledged to deliver a letter signed by Rutgers students to the family of the young Parisian Jew who was tortured and murdered earlier this year in what was labeled a hate crime.
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