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Article: Sharpton: I Feel Israel's Pain; Spurred by Trade Center attack, activist plans pilgrimage to spur 'quantum leap' in black-Jewish cooperation against terror
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- The Jewish Week
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- September 21, 2001
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Dickter, Adam
The Jewish Week
09-21-2001
Sharpton: I Feel Israel's Pain; Spurred by Trade Center attack, activist
plans pilgrimage to spur `quantum leap' in black-Jewish cooperation against
terror.
Amid the aftershocks of last week's devastating terror attack here, the
Rev. Al Sharpton will travel to Israel next month hoping to show a "greater
sensitivity" toward its people, he announced Sunday.
"I recognize that people in Israel live every day with the heart-wrenching
experiences that we have witnessed over the past several days," Reverend
Sharpton told two reporters at a press conference in Midtown, shortly
before visiting the site of the World Trade Center ruins for a prayer
service. "I have been ...