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Fast Forward Israel Hopes To Lure More French Jews
Israel is set to announce a three-year plan aimed at attracting more French Jews to settle in the Jewish state. The first move will consist of recognizing French diplomas for medical professionals and tax consultants, an official from Israel’s Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs told the Ma’ariv daily this week. The government has…
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Fast Forward Quasi-Nazi Salute Getting Traction in French Media With Anti-Semitic Overtones
(JTA) — To outsiders, they seem like ordinary men striking macho poses for the camera. But there is a dark side to the photos that are appearing with growing frequency in the French media. The men – and less frequently women – are performing the “quenelle,” a gesture vaguely similar to the Nazi salute that some…
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Fast Forward Economic and Security Concerns Drive Record Levels of French Aliyah
In an overcrowded conference room in the heart of Paris’ 14th arrondissement, a hundred French Jews are losing their patience. They have gathered at the Paris office of the Jewish Agency for Israel for a lecture on immigrating to Israel, but the agency staff is running behind. Its 20 staffers are coping with a 57…
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Fast Forward French Suburb Honors Man Imprisoned for Murder of American and Israel Diplomats
A suburb of the French capital honored a man imprisoned for helping to murder diplomats from Israel and the United States. A majority of aldermen in the city council of Bagnolet east of the French capital voted on Wednesday to make the Lebanese citizen Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an honorary resident, calling him a “communist activist”…
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Fast Forward French Croatian Group Calls for Investigation of Bob Dylan Over Incitement
A French Croatian group said it sued Bob Dylan for incitement to racial hate. A spokesperson for the Representative Council of Croat Institutions of France, or CRICCF, said the lawsuit was filed in Paris civil court in connection with statements made by Dylan during an interview that appeared in Rolling Stone in September and was…
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Fast Forward French Court Fines Members of BDS Group Calling for Supermarket Boycott
A French court imposed a $1,300 fine on members of an anti-Israel group who called on supermarket shoppers to boycott Israeli products. The Court of Appeals of Colmar near Strasbourg fined each of the group’s 12 members individually on Wednesday for their participation in a pro-boycott activity in 2009-2010, which the court qualified as “provocation…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Prompts French Jewish Parents to Enroll Kids in Private Schools
Most French Jewish parents enroll their children in private schools because of anti-Semitism, a leader of France’s Jewish community said. Anti-Semitism “affects Jewish families very seriously and is the main reason there are so few Jewish children in public schools,” Roger Cukierman, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, said Tuesday during…
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Fast Forward Jewish Immigration from France to Israel Increases by 49 Percent in 2013
Jewish immigration from France to Israel has increased by 49 percent in the first nine months of 2013 compared to last year. Through September, 2,185 French Jews have immigrated to Israel, compared to 1,469 immigrants during the same time frame in 2012, according to Jewish Agency for Israel figures. The number of immigrants who arrived…
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