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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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Fast Forward Israel Balks at France’s Deadline for 2-State Talks
(JTA) — For months, France has considered taking a more active role in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Israel wants no part of it. The French peace proposal reportedly would have three components: a return to direct Israeli-Palestinian talks, a committee of representatives from world and regional powers to facilitate the negotiations, and a United Nations…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Slams French Peace Initiative As ‘Dictate’ That Hurts Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prefaced talks about a French-led peace initiative on Sunday by saying foreign powers were trying to dictate to Israel a deal with the Palestinians. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, on a two-day visit to the Middle East, was due to meet Palestinian leaders in the occupied West Bank before seeing Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward French Anti-Israel Boycotter Targets All Kosher Food
A French anti-Semitism watchdog called for a police probe against a former lawmaker who warned Muslim shoppers about locally produced kosher products. “Ramadan soon: Watch out with your shopping,” Jean-Claude Lefort, a former lawmaker for France’s communist party and current president of the France Palestine Solidarity Association, or AFPS, wrote in a social media posting…
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Fast Forward 15 Charged with Planning Jihadist Attacks on French Jews
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Paris presented their case against 15 defendants accused of planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets. The trial against the men, alleged members of the banned terrorist group Forsane Alizza, began Monday at the Correctional Tribunal of Paris and is expected to continue through June 23. They are accused…
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