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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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Fast Forward Killer Frenchman Gets 5 Years in Israel Hit-and-Run
A French Jew who in 2011 fled a fatal hit-and-run in Tel Aviv was sentenced in Paris to five years in jail. A passenger who also fled was sentenced to 15 months. Eric Robic, who confessed to driving at the time of the accident, fled Israel with passenger Claude Khayat shortly after hitting Lee Zeitouni,…
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Fast Forward Paris Rape Suspect Borrowed Sugar From Jewish Victims
A suspect in the robbery and rape of a young couple in suburban Paris borrowed sugar from the victims days before the attack, a lawyer for the victims’ family told French media. The three suspects in the case, who reportedly are known to police, appeared in court on Wednesday and bond was set, LeMonde reported….
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Fast Forward Was Paris Home Invasion Rape a Hate Crime?
French police arrested two men who are suspected of racially motivated violence against a Jewish couple near Paris. The assault occurred Monday in the suburb of Creteil, the Le Parisien daily reported Tuesday. Three men carrying weapons forced their way into an apartment where the parents of one of the victims live. Police do not…
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Fast Forward French Parliament Votes 2-1 for ‘Palestine’ Recognition
(JTA) — France’s parliament is calling for Palestinian statehood recognition. On Tuesday, the National Assembly voted 339 to 151 in favor of the largely symbolic motion that “invites the French government to use the recognition of the state of Palestine as an instrument to bring about a definitive resolution of the conflict.” It also says that…
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Fast Forward Should French Jews Protest ‘Palestine’ Vote?
The CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities called on French Jews to refrain from protests against the parliament’s vote on recognition of Palestinian statehood. The nonbinding vote, which is scheduled for Tuesday at the National Assembly, prompted some 250 protesters, most of them Jewish, to demonstrate on Friday near parliament with posters reading “Hamas+Fatah=Terrorist state,”…
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Fast Forward French Jews Flock to Montreal To Build a New Life
When Dan Charbit and his wife, Gaelle Hazan, moved to Montreal from Paris two summers ago, it was meant to be a temporary fix — a year-long attempt for Charbit to reboot his stalled career as a special-effects artist in Quebec’s thriving film and television industry. They agreed to fly home if the experiment failed….
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Fast Forward Eyeing Deadline, France To Back Palestinian State If Peace Talks Fail
(Reuters) — France warned on Friday it would recognize a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed, and proposed a two-year timeframe to end the conflict through a U.N.-backed resolution. Lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on Dec. 2 on whether the French government should recognize…
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