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June 19, 2003

Plans to close the Israeli consulate in Brazil’s largest city are generating considerable concern among Sao Paulo’s 60,000 Jews, who say it will hamper efforts to promote Israel’s interests in a city that is the hub of Brazil’s Muslim community.

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Revered by three major faiths as the first man to recognize and worship one God, the prophet Abraham remains an enigmatic historic figure, painted in few-but-broad strokes in the Torah, described in hagiographic terms in subsequent depictions. The subject of dispute, like many biblical characters, among academic scholars (Did he actually exist?) Abraham is treated […]

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