A Jewish group raised $15,000 for Palestinian hospitals. Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who directs the Philadelphia-based Shalom Center, urged followers in an e-mail appeal last week to assist Palestinian hospitals affected by cuts in funding from Israel and the West in the wake of the electoral victory of Hamas, a terrorist group.
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