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News French Jews Mark Second Anniversary of Kosher Market Attack
French Jews this week commemorated the second anniversary of the Hyper Cacher shooting, remembering the four victims who lost their lives during an al-Qaeda assault on the Paris kosher supermarket. “I believe that we’ll never forget what happened here. When we cross the threshold, we remember that on that Friday, it could have been us,”…
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Fast Forward French Supermarket Sorry for ‘Made in Israeli Settlement’ Fruit Labels
(JTA) — Following complaints, a French supermarket store apologized for applying labels reading “made in Israeli settlements” to some of its products. The labels that appeared last month on pomegranates and Tangerines at the store belonging to the Auchan supermarket chain in the Paris suburb of Kremlin-Bicêtre were the result of a “an error” by…
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Fast Forward France Marks 2 Years Since Attack on Kosher Market, Charlie Hebdo
(JTA) — French politicians and community leaders marked two years since an attack on a Paris Jewish supermarket killed four shoppers. The Jan. 9, 2015 attack at the Hyper Cacher in eastern Paris came two days after terrorists killed 12 at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a day after a police officer was…
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Fast Forward French Presidential Candidate Compares Holocaust to Anti-Muslim Bias
(JTA) — French Jews accused a left-wing presidential candidate of encouraging Holocaust denial following his comparison of the Nazi persecution of Jews to the situation of French Muslims today. Vincent Peillon, who is running in the Socialist Party primaries ahead of the elections this year, made the analogy Tuesday during an interview aired by the…
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Fast Forward French Jews Slam Israeli Defense Chief’s Remarks on Dreyfus Trial
(JTA) — The umbrella group of French Jewish communities blasted the defense minister of Israel for calling on Jews to leave France and drawing parallels between the Dreyfus Affair and Paris’ attempts to push for Israeli-Palestinian talks. The statement Tuesday by the CRIF umbrella warned that the remarks a day earlier by Avigdor Liberman may…
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Fast Forward France Rejects Israel Defense Chief’s ‘Dreyfus Affair’ Claim About Paris Peace Summit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — France rejected the Israeli defense minister’s comparison of next month’s Middle East peace summit in Paris to the anti-Semitic Dreyfus trial. French Foreign Ministry officials said Monday that the Jan. 15 meeting was being held to “re-affirm” the international community’s commitment to a two-state solution. Earlier in the day, Avigdor Liberman told…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank School Outside Paris Hit with Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Anti-Jewish and anti-Roma graffiti were drawn in black marker on the front gate and the mailbox of a suburban Paris Jewish school named for teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank. The graffiti on the Anne Frank School in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of Paris, was discovered on Sunday afternoon, the French daily Le Parisian…
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Fast Forward France Plans Middle East Peace Conference for January — With or Without Israel
France will convene some 70 countries on Jan. 15 for a Middle East peace conference in Paris, its foreign minister said on Thursday, and will invite the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to meet separately at its conclusion. France has repeatedly tried to breathe new life into the peace process this year, holding a preliminary conference…
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