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It’s one of the Jewish world’s oldest still-active charities. But will theSanta Companhia de Dotar Orphas e Donzelas—a charitable fund founded in 1615 by Amsterdam’s wealthy Portuguese Jews to help marry off orphaned and needy Sephardic girls—survive the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe? Lots of Tradition The ritual may …

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