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Fast Forward Simone Veil, Holocaust Survivor And Feminist, Dies At 89
Simone Veil, a French politician and Holocaust survivor who secured the legalization of abortion in France in the 1970s, died at her home in Paris on Friday, her family said. She was 89 years old. A Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen with the prisoner number 78651 tattooed on her…
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Fast Forward Women Insulted For Reading Torah At French Synagogue
(JTA) — Women who read aloud from the Torah at a synagogue in Marseille were subjected to threats and insults by congregants after local rabbis condemned the event. The dozens of threats and insults, made on social networks and in emails, started coming in Saturday night after the group of half a dozen women read…
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Fast Forward Is French Government Covering Up Anti-Semitism In Jewish Woman’s Slaying?
(JTA) — The umbrella group of French Jewish communities escalated its criticism of authorities’ handling of the slaying of a Jewish woman by her Muslim neighbor, calling it a cover-up. CRIF made the accusation in a short and poignant statement Wednesday containing four loaded questions concerning the April 4 killing of Sarah Halimi in Paris….
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Fast Forward 18 French Jihadis Get Up To 28 Years For Kosher Market Grenade Plot
(JTA) — A French court sentenced members of a jihadist network for a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery store in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles in September 2012. The eighteen men, known as the “Cannes-Torcy cell,” were handed sentences between one and 28 years in prison at a special anti-terror tribunal in Paris Thursday, France…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Lawmaker Stirs Controversy With Hebrew Prayers — And Focus On Israel
Meyer Habib, who represents in the French Parliament nationals living abroad in eight countries including Israel, stirred a controversy this week after he gave a victory speech in which he thanked God and prayed in Hebrew. “I can’t stop myself from thanking you and also thanking the All Powerful, because while we are in a…
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Fast Forward Review Sought Of French Cops’ Inaction During Jew’s Killing By Muslim
(JTA) — A former police commissioner in France called for a probe of three officers for failing to save a Jewish woman who was killed by a Muslim man in her home while they were waiting for backup outside her Paris apartment. Sammy Ghozlan, a retired commissioner and head of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against…
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Fast Forward French Pres. Macron Wants France To Be A ‘Start-Up Nation’ — Sound Familiar?
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that he would pursue business and technological policies to help France become a “start-up nation” — a phrase frequently used to describe Israel and its entrepreneurial high-tech culture. I want France to be a start-up nation. A nation that thinks and moves like a start-up. #VivaTech pic.twitter.com/rCV2Yz0sNw —…
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Fast Forward French Authorities Accused Of Covering Up Jew’s Slaying By Muslim Neighbor
(JTA) — A European Parliament member and prominent French intellectuals protested the omission of anti-Semitism from a draft indictment of a Muslim for the murder of his Jewish neighbor. Frédérique Ries, a lawmaker from Belgium, on Thursday criticized French authorities’ handling of the investigation into the April 4 incident, in which Sarah Halimi was tortured…
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