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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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Opinion Can Dominique Strauss-Kahn Reinvent Himself — as France’s Next President?
While there are no second acts in American lives, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, there seems to be a French exception. Over the past several weeks, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Jewish former French finance minister, former head of the International Monetary Fund, former front-runner for the French presidency, and former perp at Riker’s Island, has…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Organize ‘Gaza Sur Seine’ Rally at Paris Tel Aviv Event
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near a Paris event celebrating Tel Aviv beach culture and established an alternative event called Gaza on Seine. Tel Aviv on Seine, part of the weeklong Paris Plages (“Paris Beaches”) festival, occurred Thursday as planned despite opposition from a Paris lawmaker and pro-Palestinian groups. The festival turns the banks of the Seine…
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News French Jews Find Haven From Anti-Semitism in Deauville — But Will It Last?
(JTA) This seaside community situated 125 miles west of Paris boasts windswept beaches, turquoise-water marinas, a grand casino, a race track and an Olympic-size swimming pool. Deauville, spanning 2.2 square miles, also has five kosher restaurants, three main synagogues and more than 20 smaller Jewish congregations. The picturesque Lower Normandy township emerged decades ago as…
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Fast Forward Frenchman Beaten After Waving Israeli Flag on Temple Mount Could Be Charged
A French Christian tourist was assaulted by Palestinian worshipers after waving an Israeli flag on the Temple Mount. Police detained four Palestinians from eastern Jerusalem in the attack on Tuesday, the French news agency AFP reported. The tourist, reported to be in his mid-30s, sustained an injury to his head. He also was detained by…
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Fast Forward Jean-Marie Le Pen Summoned to Court Over Gas Chamber Statement
Far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has been summoned to appear in a Paris court in the wake of his defense of his description of the Nazi gas chambers as “just a detail of WWII.” Le Pen was summoned a few weeks ago to stand trial for denying crimes against humanity, the French news agency…
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Fast Forward French University Hands Over Holocaust Victims’ Remains
The University of Strasbourg decided to hand over to the French city’s Jewish community the remains of Holocaust victims that were preserved as anatomy specimens. The remains, preserved in several glass containers, were discovered on July 9 at the university’s Institute of Forensic Medicine by historian Raphael Toledano, after years of research and denials of…
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Fast Forward Paris Kosher Market Hostage Forced To Help Killer With Video
Speaking out for the first time, one of the hostages in the described how he tried to keep the Islamist attacker calm and helped him upload a video depicting him killing four other hostages. “André” was one of the 19 people held hostage by Amedy Coulibaly inside Paris’s Hyper Cacher kosher market on January 9,…
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