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Fast Forward After Barcelona, French Jewish Leader Calls For ‘Immediate Eradication’ Of Terrorism
(JTA) – Following the death of a pedestrian in what appeared to be a vehicular terrorist attack in Marseille, a leader of the local Jewish community called for the “immediate eradication” of terrorism. Bruno Benjamin, the president of the local branch of the CRIF umbrella of Jewish communities, wrote the message on Twitter on Monday,…
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Fast Forward French Jews: Paris Car Ramming Attack Shows Indifference To Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Amid outrage in France over a suspected terrorist attack against police officers, the CRIF umbrella group of French Jews suggested the incident highlights indifference to anti-Semitic violence. CRIF on Wednesday posted on Facebook a tongue-in-cheek statement, questioning whether authorities would place under psychiatric evaluation a suspect who fled after ramming six police officers with his…
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Fast Forward French Memorial To Young Victims Of The Holocaust Vandalized
(JTA) — A French memorial to young victims of the Holocaust was vandalized. The memorial, a plaque bearing the names of 44 children and 7 adults who were deported in 1944 from the Children’s Home of Izieu in eastern France, was knocked off its base in a public garden in the city of Lyon and…
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Fast Forward Trump Nominates Former Dodgers Co-Owner As Ambassador To France
(JTA) — President Trump has nominated former Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner and CEO Jamie McCourt to be ambassador to France. McCourt, an entrepreneur and attorney, also would serve as ambassador to Monaco, the White House said in its announcement Thursday. McCourt “possesses a unique global perspective, having lived and worked both domestically and abroad in…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Privately Admits He Has Doubts About Trump’s Peace Push
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has doubts about U.S. Middle East peace efforts, according to a transcript of a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron. Israeli newspaper Haaretz obtained a transcript of part of the talks Netanyahu held with Macron in Paris on Sunday. Told by Macron that France supports U.S. President…
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News 6 Reasons Why Emmanuel Macron’s Holocaust Speech Matters
PARIS (JTA) — It wasn’t the first time that a French president acknowledged his nation’s Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel Macron’s speech Sunday was nonetheless groundbreaking in format, content and style. Delivered during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust memorial monument exactly 75 years after French police officers rounded up 13,152 Jews there for deportation…
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Fast Forward French President Macron: Anti-Zionism Is A Form Of Anti-Semitism
PARIS (JTA) – French President Emmanuel Macron condemned anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism during the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deportations. “We will never surrender to the expressions of hatred; we will not surrender to anti-Zionism because it is a reinvention of anti-Semitism,” Macron said on Sunday in Paris during…
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Fast Forward French, British Jewish Leaders Make Divergent Statements On Kotel Controversy
(JTA) — Leaders of British and French Jews issued divergent statements about the controversy over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. In London, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Jonathan Arkush, recently condemned the decision of the Israeli government not to implement a plan to expand separate spaces for mixed prayer at the Western Wall. The…
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