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Germany’s main Jewish leader steps down
Associated Press ^ | Oct 31, 2014 7:42 AM EDT

Posted on 10/31/2014 1:47:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Germany’s main Jewish leader, who in 2010 became the first person born after the Holocaust to take the job, says he’s stepping down.

Dieter Graumann said Friday he won’t seek a second term leading the Central Council of Jews in a vote Nov. 30. […]

Graumann was among leading critics of a 2012 German court ruling that male infant circumcision amounts to bodily harm. Parliament later approved legislation explicitly permitting the practice. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: centralcouncilofjews; circumcisionban; dietergraumann; eussr

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