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David Paratz, the Immediate Past President of the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies, has received a letter of support from Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
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I have much respect for this rabbi, we are not religious or jewish but seen his lectures and he hes real empathy this response does not surprise me at all.