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Prestigious New York City Synagogue Declines To Host the UN’s Secretary-General at Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service as Tensions Spike Between U.S. Jews and the World Body

This year, for the first time, the UN’s secretary-general was not invited to speak at the Upper East Side’s Park East Synagogue.

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The United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. AP/Seth Wenig
M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

The UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, is getting canceled by a prestigious New York City synagogue. 

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M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

Ms. Koch graduated in 2023 from Harvard College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student weekly, the Harvard Independent. She reports on issues of higher education and foreign policy at The New York Sun.

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