The executive board of the German Jewish community plans to meet Sunday to choose a new leader. The candidates seeking to succeed Ignatz Bubis, who died in August after presiding over the Central Council of Jews in Germany for eight years, are Paul Spiegel, a Dusseldorf theatrical agent, and Charlotte Knobloch, the leader of Munich’s Jewish community.
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