The mayor of the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat joined leaders of Chicago’s Jewish community in laying a cornerstone for what will be the first preschool center run by Conservative Jewry’s Masorti movement in Israel. The Suzanne Crown Goodman Preschool is a project of the Continuum Program of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, the Israel Education Fund, the Masorti movement and the Jewish Agency for Israel, which is holding its annual assembly in Israel.
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