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Rabbi Lee Bycel will serve as a guest speaker for the Juneau World Affairs Council on the subject of Darfur and Chad at 7 p.m. today at the synagogue of Congregation Sukkat Shalom in West Juneau. Rabbi Bycel is the executive director of the Western Region of American Jewish World Service, an organization dedicated to alleviating world poverty, hunger and disease. He has been a frequent visitor to Chad and Darfur and lectures regularly about the situation in that region.