Elian Gonzalez’s Miami relatives are receiving support from a prominent Jewish figure in South Florida. In a letter to a Miami-based group that is trying to keep Elian from being returned to Cuba, Norman Braman called on area Jews to support the relatives’ wishes. “We Jews must never forget our own struggle for freedom and survival,” wrote Braman in a letter he intends to print as a full- page ad in Sunday’s Miami Herald.
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