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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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Fast Forward $11M Jewish Center Set To Rise in Paris
An $11 million Jewish cultural institution will be built in Paris, the city’s mayor and the oldest existing Jewish organization in France announced. The European Center for Judaism will be built in the 17th arrondissement, or district, in northern Paris and is set to open in 2017, according to the announcement on Sunday by Mayor…
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Fast Forward Should Paris Building Remove Mystery Swastikas From Tile Floor?
A French anti-Semitism watchdog urged the mayor of Paris to order the removal of a mosaic floor featuring swastikas that the group identified in a residential building. The floor of the entrance of the building in Paris’ six arrondissement, an affluent and central quarter comprising the touristic Saint-Germain-des-Pres area, contains dozens of swastikas made of…
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Fast Forward French Lawmakers Pass Controversial Holocaust Compensation Bill
French lawmakers voted on Wednesday to create a $60-million fund to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi concentration camps in a move also intended to protect the company from future U.S. litigation. About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and transported in appalling conditions in…
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