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Fast Forward Dieudonne Banned From French Theater
A Paris court ordered the eviction of the French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, who often incites racial hatred against Jews, from a theater where he has worked for the past 15 years. The Tribunal of Major Instances of Paris re-issued the eviction order from the Main-D’or Theater on Tuesday, Le Monde reported. Dieudonne, who has…
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Fast Forward French School Uses Colored Tags To Identify Non-Pork Eating Children
A French municipality launched a probe into an elementary school’s use of red and yellow tags to identify pupils who do not eat pork and meat, respectively. The city of Auxerre, located 105 miles southeast of Paris, opened the investigation on Friday after parents complained to local media about the school’s initiative, in which neck…
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The Schmooze Artist Anish Kapoor Slams France For Covering Up Anti-Semitic Vandalism on ‘Queen’s Vagina’
British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor made news in three European capitals over the Jewish High Holy Days, marching with Ai Weiwei for refugees in London, fighting anti-semitism in France, and opening a major exhibit in Moscow. The biggest of this media trifecta was the vandalism on a sexually-suggestive piece nicknamed the “queen’s vagina” at the Palace…
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Opinion Think France’s Jews and Muslims Are Natural Enemies? Think Again.
It was late at night in central Paris. A group of Jews were enjoying themselves in their popular meeting spot, the Gamin de Paris, a café in the longtime Jewish quarter of the Marais. At about 11 PM, between 50 and 100 thugs, many of them Muslims, showed up to make trouble. Carrying Billy clubs,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teenager Assaulted Near Paris, Called ‘Dirty Jew’
A Jewish young man reported being assaulted near Paris by three black men, who hit him and called him a “dirty Jew.” The incident occurred on Tuesday in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of Paris, according to a report published Thursday by the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism — a French watchdog group known locally…
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Fast Forward French Chief Rabbi Calls for Solution to Refugee Crisis
The chief rabbi of France called on his country and the European Union to find solutions for the tens of thousands of immigrants streaming in from the Middle East. Rabbi Haim Korsia spoke of the immigrants – among them many refugees from Syria – at an annual ceremony in Paris’ Synagogue de la Victoire on…
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Fast Forward Yasser Arafat ‘Poisoning’ Case Closed by France
A panel of French judges has closed a case accusing Israel of poisoning former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat without bringing any charges. The judges said there was “a lack of sufficient evidence” to continue the investigation, a prosecutor from the court in Nanterre, near Paris, told the French news agency AFP, which also cited the…
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The Schmooze Meet Alice Attal, France’s New Jewish ‘It’ Girl
Have you heard? The — big time. Get ready to see flares, suede, stacked heals, turtlenecks and wrap dresses — and not just in reruns of “Charlie’s Angels.” Too overwhelming? Need some style inspiration? No one, and I mean no one, made the 70s look better than Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. The French-Jewish singer and his…
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