Laurent-David Samama
By Laurent-David Samama
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Opinion A Peaceful Paris Shabbat — Then, Terror at My Doorstep
Shabbat at my grandparents’ place, last Friday. They live in a house near Paris, in this troubled area known as la banlieue (the suburbs) where I grew up as a child, as a Frenchman, as a Jew. This is home, my happy childhood’s landscape. We are just a few miles away from Le Stade in…
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Opinion How I Covered the Paris Hostage Siege
Police arrive on the scene of the hostage crisis in eastern Paris.// Laurent-David Samama It was mid-morning when I saw several police cars rushing into my street with their sirens on. Even glimpsed through my window, the situation looked unusual. In light of the recent massacre at Charlie Hebdo, I was suspicious, and headed out…
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Opinion How Terror Attack Hits Raw Nerve for Paris Jews Like Me
People gather outside French embassy in Berlin to say #JeSuisCharlie / Twitter Paris, my city, is under attack. All of France is shocked and shattered. As of 11:00 this morning, French TV channels and radio stations have interrupted their regular programming to cover the story of the attack. On Twitter, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie is now…
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Opinion French Jews, Escaping to Israel Is Not the Answer
Jewish and Muslim demonstrators advocate peace at a rally in Paris / Getty Images Is it the spike in anti-Semitic acts or rather their growing banality that drives Jews in Paris, Lyon and Marseille to seriously consider emigration? Maybe both. Caught between the rise of far-right movements like the Front National and the tide of…
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