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Orthodox UnionFrom the JTA.
President Barack Obama called the parents of Ezra Schwartz, the 18-year-old American student murdered last week in a Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank, to offer his condolences.
In the telephone call Monday, the president said that Schwartz’s Israel studies had strengthened U.S.-Israel ties.
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