President Bush heard from Jewish leaders about Latin America’s Jewish community. In a meeting Sunday in Brazil, leaders of the World Jewish Congress and the region’s Jewish community stressed to Bush, who has been promoting democracy in the area, that the way Jews are treated can be “a kind of barometer, a bellwether of when things are going badly in South America,” said Rabbi Israel Singer, the WJC’s chairman.
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