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Breaking News French Man Threatens to Commit Murder at Jewish School
Police in Marseille arrested a man who brandished a weapon in front of a Jewish school and threatened to commit murder. The man, who was not named, approached the Gan Ami school while carrying the weapon, shouting: “I will kill all of you,” an unnamed police source told the Le Figaro daily. The man, 48,…
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Culture The 110 Jewish Women Who Changed France
● 110 French Jewish Women Who Changed France: the 19th and 20th Centuries By Michèle Bitton Les Éditions Normant, 678 pages, $38 Although overachieving Jews can transform their native lands triumphantly, the way their countries change them can often be tragic. This is one conclusion to be drawn from “110 French Jewish Women Who Changed…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitic Incidents Near Doubled in France in 2014, Watchdog Says
A French Jewish watchdog recorded a near doubling of anti-Semitic incidents in France for the first seven months of 2014 compared to the same period last year. From Jan. 1 to July 31, SPCJ documented 527 anti-Semitic incidents compared to 276 in the same period of 2013, the security service reported in a statement Thursday….
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Breaking News French Jewish Group Condemns Attack On Arab Teens
The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities condemned and called for an investigation into an assault, reportedly by Jews, of two teenagers. The assault against the two, both in their late teens and reportedly of Arab background, took place on Sunday in Saint Mande, Le Parisien reported. According to the report, approximately 30 young…
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Breaking News Brigitte Bardot Slams Shechitah in Open Letter, Calls It ‘Ritual Sacrifice’
Brigitte Bardot published an open letter in several leading French newspapers calling for a ban on shechitah, or Jewish ritual slaughter. The one-time French actress terms the practice “ritual sacrifice” in the letter that appeared Monday in newspapers such as Le Parisien, Le Figaro and Le Monde. The letter also calls for a ban on…
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Opinion 4 Ways Jews Are Thriving in France
People stand outside the ‘As du Fallafel’ shop in the Marais district in Paris / Getty Images The news from France is bleak: anti-Semitic sentiment is on the rise, violent incidents are piling up, and Jews are packing up and leaving for Israel. Recently, I learned that one of my cousins, tired of feeling marginalized,…
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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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Breaking News Brussels Shooting Suspect Identified as Islamist Captor in Syria
The Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium has been identified as one of the Islamists who held a French journalist captive in Syria. French journalist Nicolas Henin told reporters at a news conference on Saturday that Mehdi Nemmouche was for six months one of his captors, and that he…
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