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Fast Forward Dieudonne Wants Meeting With French Jewish Leaders
French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, who has multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred against Jews, wants to meet with representatives of France’s Jewish community. In an open letter sent last week, lawyers for Dieudonne asked Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Gilles Clavreul, the French government’s interministerial delegate for the fight against anti-Semitism, to organize the…
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Culture Judith Mergui Finds Funny Side of Sephardic French Exodus to Israel
(JTA) — A decade ago, when Israel’s community of French-speakers was only beginning its huge growth, my mother dismissively remarked that the newcomers’ “biggest contribution to this country will be all the lovely concerts.” A French speaker who grew up listening to chanson giants on Israeli radio, she was referring to how the accumulation of Francophone…
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Fast Forward 20 French Theaters Blasted for Hosting ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne
The umbrella group of French Jewish communities condemned 20 theaters that plan to host the overtly anti-Semitic one-man show of comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala. The CRIF umbrella issued the condemnation on Tuesday in connection with the show by Dieudonne, who has been convicted multiple times for inciting hate against Jews. He intends to take his…
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Fast Forward Five Arrested For Threats to Attack French Synagogue
French police arrested five men suspected of making threats online to attack a synagogue. Two of the suspects, all of whom are believed to be far-right activists, were arrested on Tuesday morning in the southern city of Montpellier, the French news agency AFP reported. The remaining three were apprehended in the nearby city of Beziers….
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Fast Forward German Court Tosses 1944 Nazi Massacre Case Against 89-Year-Old
A German court has thrown out a case against a Cologne man for his alleged involvement in the June 1944 massacre of hundreds of civilians in France. Named only as Werner C., the 89-year-old defendant was charged by the prosecutor in the western German city of Dortmund with gunning down 25 civilians in Oradour-sur-Glane along…
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Fast Forward 8-Year-Old French Girl Taunted for Being Jewish
An 8-year-old girl in France was attacked verbally and harassed for being Jewish by two fellow students identified as Muslim, a watchdog group said. The two boys, ages 8 and 9, verbally attacked the girl on Dec. 4 in the school cafeteria, where they labeled her as being Jewish, according to the Bureau for National…
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Fast Forward Paris Rape Reflects Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents, Minister Says
Anti-Semitic threats and incidents have more than doubled so far this year in France, said the interior minister at a rally on Sunday to protest a violent attack on a young Jewish couple. Three men were detained by police and appeared before an investigative judge on Wednesday in relation to the day-time home invasion in…
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Fast Forward France Will Pay $60M in Compensation for Rail Firm That Ferried Holocaust Victims
France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. litigation. About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and…
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