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150,000 Take Their Prayers to Rachel's Tomb


[Jerusalem Post] Tovah Lazaroff - Close to 150,000 people arrived from all over the country to mark the anniversary of the biblical matriarch's death by praying for her help at Rachel's Tomb between Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Wednesday night and Thursday. The mass commemoration of the matriarch's death has grown rapidly in the last few years. Twenty years ago, fewer than a thousand people would come to mark the anniversary, while last year close to 80,000 people came.
2009-10-30 06:00:00
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