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Fast Forward ‘Quenelle’ Comic Dieudonne Loses $50K Damage Suit for Banned Shows
A French appeals court nullified a lower tribunal’s award of damages to the comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala for the cancellation of his show for its anti-Semitic content. The Court of Appeals of Poitiers in western France handed down the ruling last week, Le Figaro reported. It exempted an event management firm from the coastal municipality…
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Food DIY Pork-Detector Kit Hits France
A new way to detect whether food contains pork traces will soon be available online JTA – Worried that the food you thought was kosher, or at least kosher style, has some hidden pork? Now, using a few test tubes, water and a small pregnancy test-like strip, you can find out in a few minutes…
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Fast Forward Test to Check Food For Traces of Pork Hits France
(JTA) — Worried that the food you thought was kosher, or at least kosher style, has some hidden pork? Now, using a few test tubes, water and a small pregnancy test-like strip, you can find out in a few minutes whether your food contains pork traces. HalalTest, a new product developed by two French entrepreneurs, does…
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Fast Forward European Rabbis Seek Laws Against Anti-Semitic Hate Speech
European rabbis called on governments throughout the continent to pass laws that target specifically hate speech against Jews. The call was made in a resolution passed Thursday by the standing committee of the Conference European Rabbis, or CER, which convened this week met in Tbilisi, Georgia. “We call on additional countries to follow the example…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leader Charged for Calling Quenelle Comic ‘Professional Anti-Semite’
Roger Cukierman, president of France’s largest Jewish group, was indicted for calling the comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala a “professional anti-Semite.” Cukierman, who heads the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities and organizations, announced the indictment on Monday in a video that appeared on the CRIF website. “So I am being indicted for having stated on…
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Opinion A French Jew Gazes Longingly Back at Vichy
A glance at the current best-seller list in France reminds us that not only will we always have Paris, we will also always have Vichy. Eric Zemmour’s “Le France Suicide” has just elbowed aside Valérie Trierweiler’s memoir of her (short) time as the partner of President François Hollande, “Merci Pour Ce Moment,” as the country’s…
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Fast Forward What’s Wrong With ‘Marwan Barghouti Street’?
A watchdog on anti-Semitism vowed legal action against a French municipality that named a street after Marwan Barghouti, a popular jailed Palestinian leader. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, on Wednesday prepared to motion an administrative court to void the move by the municipality of Valenton near Paris, BNVCA founder Sammy Ghozlan…
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Fast Forward Was Nicolas Sarkozy Hated by French Because He’s Jewish?
Bernard Kouchner, the previous foreign minister of France, said that former president Nicolas Sarkozy was widely disliked because of his Jewish origins. Kouchner made the assertion during an interview Tuesday for RMC radio in responding to the interviewer’s question about Kouchner’s observations about Sarkozy in Kouchner’s newly published book, “Crossed Memories.” In the book, which…
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