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Fast Forward French Rabbi’s Baby Burned With Acid Placed In Stroller
(JTA) — The baby daughter of a French rabbi was burned after being exposed to acid placed in her carriage. The 14-month-old girl suffered burns on her back and thighs Monday in the city of Bron, near Lyon, Le Parisien daily reported Wednesday. The baby is not in danger, according to the report. The acid…
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Fast Forward France Returns Paintings To Heirs Of Jewish Couple Who Fled Nazis
(JTA) — The French government returned three paintings to the heirs of a Jewish couple who sold them under duress as they fled the Nazis. The 16th-century oil paintings by the Flemish master Joachim Patinir were handed over Monday in Paris to the descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg at the Louvre Museum by French…
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Fast Forward Everyone Loved This French-Muslim Singer. Then They Read Her Facebook Posts.
(JTA) — In a deeply divided nation that is still reeling from a toxic presidential election last spring, as well as jihadist and racist attacks, Mennel Ibtissem’s performances offered a rare vision of hope. The blue-eyed Muslim woman sang Arabic and French-language renditions of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on national television in France while wearing a…
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Fast Forward Gay Israeli Jews And Muslims Get Cooking Class from French Presidential Chef
The chef from France’s presidential palace traveled to Israel to give a cooking class to gay Jews and Muslims who have been rejected by their families, AFP reported Monday. Guillaume Gomez, the head chef of the Elysee presidential palace, participated in the annual So French, So Food festival in Tel Aviv. He partnered with Beit…
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Fast Forward Germany Recognizes Algerian Jews As Holocaust Survivors
NEW YORK (JTA) — Close to 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, some 25,000 elderly Algerian Jews are for the first time being recognized as Holocaust survivors by the German government. Algerian Jews had their French citizenship stripped by the Vichy government, which then ruled the area, in 1940. Nuremberg-like…
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Fast Forward Louvre Hopes New Exhibit Of Nazi-Looted Art Will Help Find Owners
The Louvre Museum in Paris has a new permanent exhibit: paintings stolen by the Nazis during the Nazi occupation of France, CNN reported. More than 1,700 paintings that were recovered from Nazi looting hang on the walls of the Louvre, but the 31 paintings in this special exhibit are unique: They have yet to be…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Boy, 8, Beaten In Anti-Semitic Attack
(JTA) — A Jewish boy was beaten by teen-age assailants in a suburb of Paris in what French prosecutors are calling an anti-Semitic attack. The boy, 8, was wearing a kippa while walking to a tutor on Tuesday afternoon in the Paris suburb of Paris when two assailants, about 15 years old, knocked him to…
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Fast Forward French Lawmakers Banned From Wearing Religious Symbols In Parliament
French lawmakers have been banned from wearing religious symbols in parliament under a proposal submitted by a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party. On Wednesday, the National Assembly’s administrative office adopted the proposal of En Marche’s François de Rugy, which states that in an effort to “maintain an atmosphere of neutrality” in the parliament does…
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