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Germany’s Central Council of Jews has awarded Dortmund football team manager Hans-Joachim Watzke the Leo Baeck Prize for his efforts to stem anti-Semitism. The award is named after Rabbi Leo Baeck, a former concentration camp inmate who later became chairman of the World Union of Progressive Judaism. Baeck, who was considered the spiritual leader of German Jews during the National Socialist regime, died in 1956. Watzke, chief executive at Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, has campaigned for an open society for many years, the Central Council said in a statement on Wednesday. “The fight agains…

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