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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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Fast Forward French President’s Party Withdraws 2nd Candidate Who Supported BDS
(JTA) – For the second time this month, the party of French President Emmanuel Macron withdrew from its parliamentary elections ticket a candidate who promoted a boycott of Israel. William Tchamaha was removed Thursday from the En Marche party’s list in next month’s elections, the news site Actu reported. CRIF, the umbrella group of French…
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Opinion Dear President Macron: Reinforce France’s Ties With Israel
PARIS (JTA) — In the French presidential campaign just concluded, discussion of foreign policy was largely forgotten. Nonetheless, Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president, faces several critical global issues, among them the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. If France would like to play a role, she must rebuild the credibility that was diminished in January when the Paris…
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Fast Forward French President Macron’s New Cabinet Is Split On Israel
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron presented a diverse cabinet of 22 ministers, including a Jew, a Muslim and both advocates and critics of Israel. Macron, a centrist who had served in governments led both by Socialists and Republicans before his election on May 7 on an independent ticket, appointed on Wednesday as his foreign…
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