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Couple brings Jewish life to Surprise

Rabbi, wife forge new community in city without one

U.S. Census figures show Surprise is home to an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 Jewish people among its nearly 160,000 population.

Yet, outside of a neighborhood Jewish community group in the Grand, which caters to its older neighborhood crowd, Surprise had no Jewish cultural presence.

But that changed recently with the arrival of Rabbi Shlomo Ceitlin and his wife, Batya, who are working hard to change that in Surprise.

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