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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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Fast Forward First French Concentration Camp Being Converted Into Memorial
(JTA) – An abandoned train station in eastern France that during the Holocaust became the first concentration camp for Jews in that country is being rebuilt as a memorial museum. The Pithiviers station saw in May 1941 the arrival of more than 3,500 Jews without French citizenship, whom authorities ordered to report to police stations…
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Fast Forward French-German TV Channel Under Fire For Canceling Anti-Semitism Documentary
(JTA) — The French-German channel Arte is facing criticism for deciding not to broadcast a documentary called “Chosen and Excluded — Jew Hatred in Europe.” Arte’s head of programming, Alain le Diberder, wrote a letter to the Central Council of Jews in Germany on Thursday defending the network’s decision, according to Deutsche Welle. Diberder’s said that the…
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Film & TV The Hero Who Saved An American Battalion 100 Years Ago
(JTA) — In celebration of its 2017 centennial, JTA is highlighting stories from its archive. (JTA) — Things weren’t looking good for the more than 500 Allied soldiers trapped by German forces in France’s Argonne Forest in November 1918. Not only were they under fire from the Germans, they also were being bombarded with shells from Americans…
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Opinion France’s President Macron Is A Friend Of Israel
As leaders of an organization deeply involved in pro-Israel advocacy in France and other key European countries, we are writing to report that the people of France have elected a potentially strong friend of Israel, Emmanuel Macron, as president. When Macron, then France’s Minister for the Economy, made his highly successful official visit to Israel…
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Fast Forward Israeli Education Group Reaches 1,000 French Students
(JTA) – An Israel-based Jewish educational group, Dirshu, has enrolled its 1,000th student in France into classes devoted to studying the Talmud, a central text of Orthodox Jewish tradition. The current level of enrollment was reached two years after Dirshu, which was founded in 1997, began its current cycle of study in France, Rabbi Naftali…
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