Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is planning to visit the Jewish state. Simmons, who also is chairman of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, which promotes black-Jewish ties, will go to Israel on a “fact-finding mission” in the late spring, the foundation said.
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