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Breaking News French Man Fined $4,130 for ‘Quenelle’ Salute in Bordeaux
Amid a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, a French court for the first time punished a defendant who performed the quasi-Nazi quenelle salute. The correctional tribunal of Bordeaux on Wednesday convicted the defendant, a 28-year-old Moroccan native, of incitement to racial hatred for performing the quenelle in front of a synagogue, and fined him the equivalent…
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Breaking News Jews Blame Apathy for Gains of Right Wing French National Front
Jewish groups in France and Europe blamed voters’ indifference for the success of the country’s far-right National Front party in local elections. National Front candidates were elected mayors in 11 municipalities in Sunday’s elections — a dramatic increase over the party’s previous record of four mayors in 1997, the news site europe1.fr reported. “The message…
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Breaking News Thousands Attend Paris Aliyah Fair Amid Spate of Anti-Semitic Incidents
Thousands of French Jews attended an information fair in Paris about moving to Israel. Sunday’s fair, organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and the World Zionist Organization, offered information from representatives of many Israeli organizations and institutions, including government ministries. The Drancy-based Bureau for…
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Music French Jewish Candidate Received Death Threats During Municipal Elections
A Jewish candidate in Marseille said he and his family received death threats amid a string of anti-Semitic incidents coinciding with municipal elections in France. Hagay Sobol, a City Council hopeful on the Socialist Party list in the final round of elections to be held Sunday, revealed on his Facebook page earlier this week that…
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Breaking News French Jews Urged To Block National Front
Following far-right gains in France’s ongoing local elections, the country’s union of Jewish students called for voters and candidates to block further nationalist successes. The call to action by the Union of Jewish French Students, or UEJF, came on Sunday, when a strong showing by Marine Le Pen’s National Front Party in the first round…
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News What’s a Jewish Town Doing in the Middle of ‘Madame Bovary?’
The other day, a French friend who lives in Israel used the expression quel capharnaüm to describe the state of her apartment after her small grandchildren had come for a visit. What she meant was, “What a mess,” but to my surprise, when I told her she had used a most appropriate word for Hebrew-speaking…
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Breaking News Paris College Hecklers Shut Down Israel Event
A French university defended its decision to shut down a pro-Israel event after disruptions by pro-Palestinian activists. The administration of the Paris 8 University in Saint-Denis near Paris stopped the March 14 activity of approximately 10 members of the “What Israel” group “regretfully, and because of the risk of disruption of public order,” the university…
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Breaking News French Minister Accuses Israel Opponents of Anti-Semitism
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls called anti-Zionism “an invitation to anti-Semitism” at a rally in Paris commemorating four Jews who were murdered in Toulouse in 2012. Valls made the statement during a speech on Wednesday – the two-year anniversary of the murder at a local Jewish day school of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler; his two sons,…
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