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Fast Forward French Participation in Birthright Expected to Increase Tenfold This Year
The number of French participants in Taglit-Birthright Israel is slated to increase to 1,000 this year from approximately 100 a year ago. The Birthright organization decided to focus on France this year due to recent anti-Semitic attacks there, expanding its cooperation with local Jewish organizations and increasing its French online marketing effort. “We have decided…
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News French Chief Rabbi Rocked by $120K Orthodox Divorce Shakedown Video
(JTA) — A month ago, Michel Gugenheim seemed to have succeeded in helping France’s rabbinate recover from the scandal that ended the tenure of its previous chief rabbi. One of France’s two interim chief rabbis and the president of the Paris rabbinic court, Gugenheim had helped advance an ambitious restructuring plan to address redundancies within French…
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News Marine Le Pen Tweaks Dad for ‘Oven’ Pun About Jewish Singer Patrick Bruel
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, criticized her father, the party’s founder, for a pun about a French-Jewish singer seen as anti-Semitic. Jean-Marie Le Pen, currently a legislator, said in a video posted on the party website that “next time we will put him in an oven” when asked about…
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The Schmooze ‘Love Locks’ Fail On Paris Bridge
The Pont des Arts footbridge over the Seine in central Paris was closed for a few hours on Sunday after a metal grill laden with padlocks left by amorous couples collapsed onto the walkway. Padlocks began appearing on bridges in Paris and other European cities more than five years ago left by people seeking to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teens Escape Axe Attack Near Paris
Two Jewish teenagers told police they narrowly escaped an attack near Paris by a hatchet-wielding man and three others. The attack occurred late at night on June 4 in Romainville, a northeastern suburb of the French capital, according to a report by the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. The teens, aged 14…
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Fast Forward Jean-Marie Le Pen Slammed for Pun With Holocaust Overtones
An apparent anti-Semitic pun by former far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has spurred calls for his prosecution. Le Pen, the founder of the National Front party and currently a legislator, said in a video posted on the party website that “next time we will put him in an oven” when asked about French singer…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Joins World Leaders for D-Day — Eyes on Ukraine
(Reuters) — World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule, as host France sought to use the event to achieve a thaw in the Ukraine crisis. Wreaths, parades and parachute-drops honored history’s largest…
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Fast Forward Israel Thanks France for Bust of ‘Lone Wolf’ Brussels Jewish Museum Gunman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked French President Francois Hollande for his country’s capture of the alleged Brussels Jewish museum gunman. In a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Netanyahu also thanked Hollande for his “strong and consistent stand against anti-Semitism,” according to the Prime Minister’s Office. Mehdi Nemmouche was arrested at Marseille’s main train and bus…
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