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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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Fast Forward French Jew Wearing Kippah Threatened With Hammer
(JTA) — A Jewish man told police in the French city of Marseille that he had been assaulted on the street while wearing a kippah by another man wielding a hammer. The incident took place on Tuesday morning approximately half a mile from the Grand Synagogue of Marseille, the man told police according to a…
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Fast Forward Paris Rabbinic Court ‘Unchains’ Women Waiting 29 Years For Divorce
(JTA) — A rabbinical court in Paris officially dissolved the marriage of a Jewish woman who for 29 years had tried unsuccessfully to obtain a religious Jewish divorce from her abusive ex-husband. The move Tuesday by the rabbinical court of Paris at the seat of the Consistoire religious group was hailed as a success in…
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Fast Forward French President’s Party Boots Politician Over ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweets
(JTA) — The party of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron withdrew from its parliamentary elections ticket a politician who made statements deemed anti-Semitic. Christian Gerin, a journalist, was taken off the En Marche ticket Friday, a day after he was nominated to represent the party in next month’s elections for the French parliament, in connection with…
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Fast Forward National Front Got French Mayor To Close Holocaust Exhibit During Election
(JTA) — A French mayor closed down an exhibition on the Holocaust at the urging of politicians from the far-right National Front party, who said it constituted illicit campaigning on election day. The mayor of Ploeren, Gilbert Lorho, ordered the closure of the exhibition on May 7, the day when millions of Frenchmen participated in…
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Fast Forward Macron And His French Jewish Supporters May Be On A Collision Course
PARIS (JTA) — French Jews may have voted en masse for Emmanuel Macron in the final round of France’s presidential elections, but that doesn’t make him their dream president. Like many other supporters of the 39-year-old former investment banker, who on Sunday became the youngest French president in recent history, Jews voted for Macron mainly to block…
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Fast Forward 96% Of French Israelis Vote For Macron
A whopping 96% of Israelis eligible to vote in France’s elections on Sunday voted for president-elect Emmanuel Macron, France’s ambassador to Israel said. Helene Le Gal offered the figure in a post on Twitter, but noted that the results were still not complete. The landslide vote would reflect the opposition of many French Jews to…
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Opinion How Marine Le Pen Lost French Election, But Still Won
Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate in France’s presidential race, called Sunday’s election a “choice of civilization.” Almost two-thirds of voters heeded those words and cast their ballot for the only civilized option: her 39-year-old rival, centrist Emmanuel Macron. The result comes as a relief to liberals on both sides of the Atlantic, who badly…
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