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The Schmooze I’m Still Drawing, Charlie
Lior Zaltzman As a cartoonist, I’ve often been scared to breach political topics in an overt way. My fear centers on the reactions I might get from family and friends, or from internet trolls — but never on any concern for my life. That reality has now changed. Can’t sleep tonight, thoughts with my French…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls on World To Act After Paris Terror Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a “global response” to the attack on a satirical magazine in Paris. Netanyahu issued his statement Thursday during a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende in Israel. “These extremists are part of a global movement and this necessitates a global response,” Netanyahu said of the slaying of…
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Opinion How Terror Attack Hits Raw Nerve for Paris Jews Like Me
People gather outside French embassy in Berlin to say #JeSuisCharlie / Twitter Paris, my city, is under attack. All of France is shocked and shattered. As of 11:00 this morning, French TV channels and radio stations have interrupted their regular programming to cover the story of the attack. On Twitter, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie is now…
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Opinion Would Charlie Hebdo Have Angered So Many Online?
Getty Images I’ve had a swirl of emotions in response to the attack on France’s satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, which has left 12 dead, including many of this generation’s greatest cartoonists. I’m raging at the brutality of the act and find myself utterly incapable of getting anywhere near an understanding of a worldview so insecure…
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Fast Forward Fire Started at Paris Synagogue by Hate-Mongers
A fire was set iinside a synagogue near Paris and attackers drew a swastika on its wall. The fire was started at the synagogue of the suburb of Garges on Jan. 1, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance against anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. Police were looking into the case, the report said. Last month, a…
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Fast Forward French Anti-Semitism Fighter Will Immigrate to Israel
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, announced he would immigrate to Israel, calling it “a message.” Ghozlan, a former police commissioner whose organization is one of France’s leading watchdog groups on anti-Semitism, announced his departure on Monday – shortly after the annual roundup of the Jewish Agency showed that 2014…
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Fast Forward Israel ‘Deeply Disappointed’ at French U.N. Vote for Palestinian Statehood Deadline
Israel’s government said it was “deeply disappointed” in France’s U.N. Security Council vote for Palestinian statehood. Aviv Shir-On, the Israeli foreign ministry’s deputy director for Europe, met Friday with Patrick Maisonnave, France’s ambassador to Israel, according to Israel Army Radio and Haaretz. A Jordanian bid to pass the resolution failed this week to garner the…
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Fast Forward Israel Immigration Hits 10-Year High Mark
Aliyah reached a ten-year high in Israel in 2014 with about 26,500 new immigrants. The figures released Wednesday, on the last day of 2014, by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, marked a 32 percent increase in worldwide aliyah over the previous year, which saw about 20,000 new…
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