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Culture What if ‘Call Me By Your Name’ was French? (And less Jewish)
François Ozon’s “Summer of 85,” which hit the Jewish film festival circuit earlier this year, seems like a coup for any lineup: a sumptuous period piece that competed at Cannes and isn’t about the Holocaust should be opening night material. But what makes it Jewish? The film, which comes to cinemas in New York and…
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Culture Sketches of Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus’ trials open a window to a scandalous past
History fated Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus to forever be footnotes in each other’s stories. Dreyfus, a military officer wrongly convicted of treason, sparked an antisemitism scandal that split French society into factions. Zola, the celebrated writer who penned the famed pro-Dreyfus open letter “J’Accuse,” would face legal trouble of his own for doing so….
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Fast Forward Islamists have declared war on France, Jewish community leader says following fatal church stabbings
Islamists have declared war on France, a senior leader of French Jews said following multiple assaults, including the murder of three people at a church in Nice. Gil Taieb, the vice president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, made the comments Thursday in reference to the beheading of one woman and the…
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Community After the murder of a French teacher, an 18th century play teaches tolerance
On Friday, an 18-year-old Chechen immigrant beheaded a history teacher just outside his school near Paris for the crime of showing his class caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a course about freedom of expression. Just two weeks ago, after two people were stabbed in a different terrorist incident, President Macron gave a long-anticipated, lengthy…
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News To fight radical Islam, France is limiting religious freedoms — with the blessing of its Jewish minority
As the French government rolls out a controversial plan that amounts to its most robust crackdown on religious activity in decades, it is enjoying broad support from at least one of the country’s faith communities: French Jews. Jewish community leaders have applauded President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to counter what he calls “Islamist separatism” with a…
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Fast Forward ‘Too many Cohens:’ Spotify should remove French rapper, Wiesenthal Center says
The Simon Wiesenthal center called on Spotify to remove Freeze Corleone, a French rapper known for his antisemitic lyrics, from their platform in a statement released Friday. In a letter sent by the Wiesenthal Center’s president, Shimon Samuels to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, Samuels argued that “Freeze Corleone’s malicious hatred can kill and is not…
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Fast Forward Streaming services urged to remove French rapper’s songs on Hitler, Jews and money
(JTA) — France’s oldest anti-racism watchdog group called on internet giants to remove from their platforms newly released hit rap songs that critics say are anti-Semitic. The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism, or LICRA, urged YouTube, Google, Apple Music and Spotify to remove works by Issa Lorenzo Diakhaté. The 28-year-old rapper, also known as Freeze…
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Fast Forward Hearing in trial of Hyper Cacher store killings set for Yom Kippur, and court won’t change the date
A hearing in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Hyper Cacher kosher store attack in Paris that left four people dead was set for Yom Kippur. Lawyers for the families of victims have asked for a postponement for the Sept. 28 hearing, i24 News reported Tuesday. On the Day of Atonement, the most…
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