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Fast Forward French Jews Fear ‘Nightmare’ Win by National Front Leader Marine Le Pen in 2017
The head of France’s Jewish community said he feared that the country’s far-right National Front party may win the next presidential elections. “It is 8 P.M. on May 14, 2017. The face of [National Front leader] Marine Le Pen appears on the television screens of millions of Frenchmen on the second round of the presidential…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Celebrity Art Dealer Reburied in Israel — 143 Years After Death
A Jewish celebrity art dealer who died in 1870 in France was reburied in Israel after his body was exhumed from his Paris grave due to property laws. The funeral for Jacob Giacomo Tedesco on Sunday in Beit Shemesh marked the end of a seven-year legal fight led by his relatives to receive his remains…
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Opinion Roma Girl’s Deportation Drama Forces France To Relive Holocaust History
It’s déjà vu all over again for the French, with memories of the past washing up against experiences in the present. Tragically, an innocent teenage girl named Leonarda Dibrani has served as the spark for the most recent episode of this recurring national trauma. Two weeks ago, the French police stopped a bus taking Leonarda…
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Fast Forward French Jews Push Back on Efforts To Ban Circumcision
More than 5,000 people, including prominent French politicians, scholars and clergymen, have signed a petition against attempts to ban ritual circumcision of boys in Europe. Titled “no to a ban on circumcision,” the petition was published on Oct. 16 by CRIF, the umbrella organization representing France’s Jewish communities, following the Oct. 1 passing of a…
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Fast Forward French Lawyer Disbarred for Filing Motion Against Judge Because He Is Jewish
A lawyer from Lyon in eastern France has been disbarred for filing a motion to disqualify a Jewish judge because of his origins. The French Bar Association disbarred Alexis Dubruel on Wednesday for citing the name of judge Albert Levy in a 2012 motion to disqualify him from presiding over a custody case in which…
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Fast Forward Montreal Jewish Population Steady Amid Tensions Over Quebec Separatism and Proposed Kippah Ban
(JTA) — Battered and bruised by decades of separatist governments, restrictive language laws and a modern-day exodus, the Jewish community of Quebec may finally have something to celebrate. A new analysis of figures culled from the 2011 Canadian census, known as the National Household Survey, found that Quebec’s Jewish population had not dipped below the…
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Fast Forward Being Jewish in France Was Harder Thirty Years Ago, New Survey Shows
A majority of respondents in a French survey on racism said that being Jewish is easier today in France than it was 30 years ago but being Muslim has become more difficult. In the survey of 1,003 French adults published Monday, 70 percent of respondents said that being Jewish is easier today in France than…
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Fast Forward Good Samaritan Prevents Stabbing of Jewish Teen on Paris Street
A passerby stopped a schoolboy from stabbing a Jewish classmate in Paris. The attempted stabbing on Sept. 24 in Paris’ 16th arrondissement ended without serious injury thanks to the intervention of the man who was riding his scooter when he noticed a fight, SPCJ, the security service of France’s Jewish community, reported Thursday. The attacker…
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