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Fast Forward French Lawmakers Wear Kippahs to Parliament After Wave of Attacks
A French-Jewish lawmaker and his non-Jewish colleague wore kippahs in parliament to signal their rejection of anti-Semitism. Meyer Habib and Claude Goasguen were filmed wearing the Jewish head cover briefly in the corridors of the National Assembly Wednesday, after a Jewish community leader from Marseille called on Jews to remove their kippahs as a security…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Politician Died of Asphyxiation
A French Jewish politician found dead in his home was killed by asphyxiation, the autopsy found. The body of Alain Ghozland, 73, a municipal councilor in the Paris suburb of Creteil, was also reportedly riddled with stab wounds when it was discovered in his apartment Tuesday morning. An unnamed judicial source told the French MetroNews…
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Fast Forward It’s ‘Intolerable’ Jews Now Live In Fear, French President Says
Terror murders and attacks and an explosion in anti=Semitic attacks have Jews in France feeling the need to hide — and that’s ‘intolerable,’ says the country’s president, Francois Hollande. “It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they…
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News Do Anti-Semitic Attacks Signal End of ‘Marseille Miracle’?
(JTA) — Only three years ago, the Jews of Marseille were able to congregate without security and in relative safety in their synagogues and community centers. While violence by Muslim extremists rose throughout France, it largely spared the southern port city, where 80,000 Jews and 250,000 Muslims live. When I visited in late 2012, I…
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Fast Forward Marseille Jews Split on Wearing Kippahs After Spate of Attacks
Representatives of the Jewish community of Marseille issued conflicting statements on whether Jews should hide their kippah in the southern French city following a spate of anti-Semitic stabbings. Tzvi Amar, president of the local office of the Consistoire, the French Jewish community’s organization responsible for religious services, was quoted Tuesday by Le Figaro as saying…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Politician Stabbed to Death in Flashpoint Paris Suburb
The body of a French Jewish local politician from Creteil near Paris was found riddled with stab wounds in his apartment. Alain Ghozland, 73, who served as the municipal councillor of “The Repulicans” party (headed by Sarkozy), is believed to have been murdered but police have no leads in the investigation into his death, L’Express…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Teacher Saved by Torah in ‘ISIS’ Machete Attack
A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille on Monday is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, the prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille said. The victim used a Torah book as a shield, according to one news…
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Fast Forward France Pays Silent Tribute to 2015 Terror Victims
PARIS – France honored the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a thinly attended silent ceremony on Sunday, almost a year to the day when more than a million people marched in Paris to protest killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo layed a wreath…
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