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Breaking News Supermarket Attack Victims Remembered at Paris Synagogue
Hundreds gathered with the leaders of France and Israel to remember the victims of an attack at a kosher supermarket near Paris. French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined several hundred members of the Jewish community at the memorial Sunday night at the Grand Synagogue of Paris. Hollande did not deliver…
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Breaking News Supermarket Victim Yoav Hattab Recently Returned from Birthright Trip
Yoav Hattab, one of the victims of last week’s Paris kosher supermarket shooting, recently returned from a Birthright Israel trip. Hattab, 21, was one of four victims of the Friday shooting, which followed an attack earlier in the week at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which claimed 12 victims. “In the past year,…
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Breaking News At Least 3.7 Million March in France To Honor Attack Victims
At least 3.7 million people demonstrated in France on Sunday to honor the victims of Islamist attacks last week, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry spokesman said that 1.2 million to 1.6 million people had marched in Paris and about 2.5 million people in other cities around the country. The ministry said it was the…
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Breaking News French Jewish Sites Promised Extra Protection
Jewish schools and synagogues in France have been promised extra protection, by the army if necessary, after killings by Islamic militants in Paris, the head of the community’s umbrella group said on Sunday after a meeting with President Francois Hollande. The attacker who took hostages in a siege of a Paris kosher supermarket in which…
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Opinion Israelis Support Paris Jews — With ‘Charlie’ Pun
Photo by Naomi Zeveloff As a million people gathered in today’s Paris march, French Jewish immigrants stood in solidarity with their co-religionists abroad, first at a post-Sabbath rally outside the French Embassy in Tel Aviv and then on Sunday at Jerusalem’s City Hall. Hundreds of French Jews gathered in a conference room for the Jerusalem…
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Opinion Tefillin Stand Near Paris Siege Draws Mixed Response
A Lubavitch Jew had passersby put on tefillin yards from the besieged kosher market / Twitter (JTA) — Standing for hours behind that yellow police line Friday, many of us could feel our patience running out as we waited idly near the Porte de Vincennes metro station for news from the hostage situation that was going…
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Breaking News Gun from Paris Supermarket Siege Linked With Jogger Shooting 2 Days Earlier
Bullet cases found at the site where a jogger was shot and wounded on Wednesday evening match the gun found at the scene of a fatal shooting in a supermarket east Paris two days later, the Paris prosecutor said citing ballistics tests. Four hostages died in Friday’s siege on a Jewish supermarket by an Islamic…
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Breaking News Paris March Organizer Cites Million-Plus Turnout
An organizer of Sunday’s march in Paris to honor the victims of the Islamist attacks in France said the turnout could surpass one million. “Fantastic France! I am told there could be as many as 1.3 million to 1.5 million of us in Paris,” Francois Lamy, the lawmaker charged by the ruling Socialist Party with…
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