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Fast Forward France Says Will Recognize State of Palestine If Talks Fail
France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that Paris should recognize a Palestinian state only if doing so would help achieve peace, not as a symbolic gesture. However, if negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel fail, Paris “would not shirk its responsibilities” but would recognize the Palestinian state, the minister, Laurent Fabius, said in answer to…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Girl Joins ISIS Radicals
Among the some 100 girls and young women who have left France in recent weeks to join the ISIS in Syria was a Jewish girl, the Daily Mail reported citing French intelligence. The French security official, who spoke anonymously to the British newspaper, did not provide any other details on the Jewish girl, such as…
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Culture Journalist Anne Sinclair Opens Up About Everything — Except DSK
‘I’m a woman, I’m French, I’m Jewish, I’m a journalist, and I’m the granddaughter of my grandfather.” Anne Sinclair, 66, sipping a cappuccino at the Peninsula Hotel on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, says that she has many identities, and now wants to put together “the pieces of her origin.” In the francophone world, she is perhaps…
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Culture For Patrick Modiano, Nazi Occupation Offers Rich Backdrop to Tales of Trial and Triumph
Although London’s betting parlors had claimed the odds-on favorites for this year’s Nobel Prize for literature were Kenya’s Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Japan’s Haruki Murakami, the choice of France’s Patrick Modiano was good news for Jewish readers. In awkward English, the Nobel Academy referred to Modiano’s obsession with wartime France as the “art of memory…
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourist Arrested for Flying Drone Over Paris
An Israeli tourist was arrested and thrown in jail for flying a drone over Paris landmarks. The Israeli man, 24, was arrested Oct. 1 and spent the night in jail. The following morning he was levied a nearly $650 fine for “operating an aircraft non-compliant with safety laws,” the French news agency AFP reported. The…
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Fast Forward French Far Right Senator Has Jewish Roots
The 26-year-old son of a Jewish man is one of the first members of the far-right National Front party to be elected to France’s senate. David Rachline and another National Front candidate, Stephane Ravier, were elected as senators on Sunday in the national elections for the French upper house, which never before had lawmakers from…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Drives 28% Jump in Aliyah
(JTA) — France leads immigration to Israel. Ukrainian immigration doubles. Surprise, surprise. Not. Aliyah to Israel jumped 28 percent in the past Jewish year, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel, for a total of 24,800 — the highest figure in five years. And driving the increase are Jews who are dying to get out…
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Fast Forward French Jews Move Toward National Front as Right Pushes Fight on ‘Islamization’
From the window of his Paris home, Michel Ciardi can see into the waiting room of a government welfare agency where a predominantly Arab and African crowd awaits government checks. A former communist, Ciardi once believed the scene at the agency was a necessary element of French efforts to help integrate new immigrants. But that…
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