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Breaking News Jewish Pro-Palestinian Activist Calls Yarmulke Sign of Allegiance to Israel
French Jews condemned a prominent Jewish pro-Palestinian activist who said that the act of wearing a kippah is a sign of allegiance to the policies of the State of Israel. Rony Brauman, a former president of Doctors Without Borders, made the statement last week during an interview on the Europe1 radio station about the Jan….
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Opinion Every Single Frenchman Can Don a Kippah and It Still Won’t Help French Jews
To be or not to be…willing to wear a kippah in public? That is the question the French Jewish community, with Hamlet-like intensity and introspection, has been debating over the last few weeks. Even France’s non-Jews are making their opinions known, most notably by donning kippot in symbolic gestures of “solidarity.” It is, inevitably, a…
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Breaking News Muslim Terror Attacks Have Sparked a World War — French PM
PARIS — Listing terrorist attacks in Israel along with other attacks by the Islamic State, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said they showed “we are in a world war.” Valls made the statement on Monday at a Paris hotel where he spoke before approximately 350 listeners, mostly from the Jewish community, during an event organized…
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Breaking News 70% of French Oppose Call for Jews to Remove Yarmulkes
PARIS — Seventy percent of French citizens said it would be giving in to terrorists if Jews were forced to remove their yarmulkes for security reasons, according to a survey. The survey commissioned by the Paris Match weekly news magazine and published Friday was conducted Jan. 14-15 following one community leader’s call to Jews in…
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Breaking News French Lawmakers Wear Kippahs to Parliament After Wave of Attacks
A French-Jewish lawmaker and his non-Jewish colleague wore kippahs in parliament to signal their rejection of anti-Semitism. Meyer Habib and Claude Goasguen were filmed wearing the Jewish head cover briefly in the corridors of the National Assembly Wednesday, after a Jewish community leader from Marseille called on Jews to remove their kippahs as a security…
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Breaking News French Jewish Politician Died of Asphyxiation
A French Jewish politician found dead in his home was killed by asphyxiation, the autopsy found. The body of Alain Ghozland, 73, a municipal councilor in the Paris suburb of Creteil, was also reportedly riddled with stab wounds when it was discovered in his apartment Tuesday morning. An unnamed judicial source told the French MetroNews…
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Breaking News It’s ‘Intolerable’ Jews Now Live In Fear, French President Says
Terror murders and attacks and an explosion in anti=Semitic attacks have Jews in France feeling the need to hide — and that’s ‘intolerable,’ says the country’s president, Francois Hollande. “It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they…
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News Do Anti-Semitic Attacks Signal End of ‘Marseille Miracle’?
(JTA) — Only three years ago, the Jews of Marseille were able to congregate without security and in relative safety in their synagogues and community centers. While violence by Muslim extremists rose throughout France, it largely spared the southern port city, where 80,000 Jews and 250,000 Muslims live. When I visited in late 2012, I…
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