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Life Catalonia’s Secret Escape Route For European Jews During The Holocaust
Mention Val d’Aran, a valley at the foot of the Pyrenees in Catalonia’s Lleida province, and most Spaniards think of winter. Popular for its access to pistes of various difficulties, the valley is peppered with ski resorts that buzz as soon as the first snow appears on the ground. Members of the Spanish Royal family…
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Fast Forward National Front Politician Says ‘Jewish Cabal’ Controls French Far-Right Party
(JTA) — A far-right lawmaker who got suspended from France’s National Front party for equating immigrants and Nazis said she was a victim of a “cabal” headed by a Jewish party member. The conflict between the suspended senator Claudine Kauffmann and party spokesperson David Rachline erupted last week, further underscoring longstanding tensions and divisions within…
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Fast Forward Brother Of Toulouse Jewish School Killer Faces Trial
(JTA) — More than five years after his arrest, Abdelkader Merah is being tried for his alleged complicity in the slaying by his brother Mohammed of four Jews and three soldiers in Toulouse, France. The trial of the older Merah, 35, began Monday in Paris in a special tribunal qualified to review highly classified material…
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Fast Forward Killing Of Paris Jewish Woman Was Anti-Semitic Hate Crime
PARIS (JTA) — Prosecutors investigating the April slaying of a Jewish woman by her neighbor said for the first time that her killing was an anti-Semitic hate crime. The characterization by prosecutors Wednesday in the death of Sarah Halimi followed months of lobbying and protest by French Jews, who were outraged by the absence of…
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Fast Forward French Interior Minister Condemns Anti-Semitic Attack On Jewish Leader
(JTA) — France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb condemned an anti-Semitic attack in which a French Jewish leader and his family were assaulted in their home. The statement issued over the weekend by Collomb’s office reiterated the French government’s determination ‘’to do everything to combat every form of racism and anti-Semitism, which have no place in…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Family Savagely Beaten At Home In Anti-Semitic Assault
(JTA) — The family of a French Jewish leader was assaulted in their home near Paris in what representatives of French Jewry said was an anti-Semitic attack. In the assault Thursday night, three men, two of whom were wearing masks, broke into the home of Roger Pinto, the president of the Siona group representing Sephardic Jews. The…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Burnishes Global Image With French TV Appearance
Richard Spencer’s advocacy for white supremacy has earned him international attention, with the “alt-right” provocateur appearing Wednesday night on one of France’s most popular comedy programs. ?? US Alt-Right leader @RichardBSpencer will be on French TV show #Quotidien on Wednesday 6 September. @gen_identity pic.twitter.com/vaAHqnlu6J — Keith Walker (@KeithWalkerNews) September 5, 2017 Spencer was interviewed on…
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Fast Forward French Schools Ordered To Serve Pork-Free Lunches To Jewish Students
(JTA) — A French court ruled that schools should provide an alternative to lunches containing pork for Muslim and Jewish students. The decision on Monday came after a Muslim organization sued the local authority at Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy, about 180 miles from Paris in east-central France, challenging its decision in 2015 to stop providing a…
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