The Catholic mayor of Sao Paulo married an Argentine-born Jewish businessman. Rabbi Henry Sobel, spiritual leader of Brazil’s largest synagogue, the 2,000-family Congregacao Israelita Paulista, gave the couple his private blessings.
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