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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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Fast Forward 650-Year-Old Synagogue in South of France Town of Carpentras Gets Renovation
– Local authorities in the city of Carpentras in southern France allocated $1.25 million for renovating the ceiling of the country’s oldest synagogue ahead of its 650th anniversary next year. The city intends to defray some of the cost through admission fees to exhibitions that it is preparing to put on next year of items connected…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Historian Sued Over ‘Far-Right Rhetoric’ Against Muslims
— One of the world’s leading historians on the Jewish communities in Arab countries is being prosecuted in France for alleged hate speech against Muslims. The Morocco-born French-Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan, 64, is due to appear next month before a Paris criminal court over a complaint filed against him for incitement to racial hatred by the…
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Fast Forward Reputed Jewish Gangster Shot 5 Times in Paris
— A Jewish man described by French police as a gangster was shot five times and severely wounded in Paris. The incident occurred Sunday evening in Paris’ upscale 16th district, which features the Eiffel Tower. The victim, identified as Dominique Guez, sustained at least one shot to the head from a drive-by shooting as he was parking his…
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Fast Forward Vincent Peillon, Leftist With Jewish Roots, Will Run for French President
— Vincent Peillon, a former education minister of France, announced his candidacy to lead France’s Socialist Party, where he is already receiving key endorsements from the party’s left wing. Peillon, a lawmaker in the European Parliament whose mother is Jewish, announced his candidacy Sunday to succeed President Francois Hollande and run as their party’s presidential candidate in…
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Life The Inadequacy of Reparations, Part II: A Belated Funeral
This is Part II of Rachel Hall’s essay on France and reparations. Part I appeared in November. Some Holocaust survivors have opposed accepting reparations, particularly from Germany, saying that nothing can atone for their treatment. I imagine that accepting restitution could feel like accepting an apology, like being forced into forgiving, when forgiveness isn’t possible….
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Fast Forward French Jews Rally Behind Manuel Valls — Does Socialist Have Any Chance of Winning?
(JTA) — Although his country is entering one of the most dramatic election campaigns in recent memory, Isy Morgensztern had no intention of exercising his right to vote. A left-wing Ashkenazi Jewish filmmaker from Paris, Morgensztern was too disappointed with the ruling Socialists under French President Francois Hollande to vote for them a second time…
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Life ‘Rabbi Jacqueline’ Film to Put a Female Spin on a French Classic
The Mad Adventures of ‘Rabbi’ Jacob is a 1973 French comedy starring Louis de Funès. It involves — among so much else, and I don’t want to spoil it! — a racist French man and an Arab revolutionary dressing up as orthodox Jews, which, as I type this, sounds terribly problematic, but has an anti-racist…
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