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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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Fast Forward Suspect in Alleged Death Threat Against Toulouse Jewish School Jailed
French police have arrested a young man suspected of making death threats against staff of a Jewish school in Toulouse. The unnamed 20-year-old was arrested over the weekend near Vesoul, a city in eastern France, for allegedly threatening last week to kill people at the school where the Islamist extremist Mohammed Merah last year gunned…
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Fast Forward French Town Unveils Judaica Treasure Hidden During Holocaust
A town near Strasbourg has unveiled dozens of precious Judaica items that were recently discovered during renovation of a former synagogue. The items were presented to the public Sunday and were hidden before the Holocaust at what is now the new cultural center of Dambach-la-Ville, a town of 2,000 residents near Strasbourg in eastern France,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Students Attacked on Sports Courts in France
A group of 10 teenagers in Paris assaulted ten Jewish school pupils at a public sports center. According to France’s Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, several teenagers “of African and North African origins” on Thursday attacked the group of Jewish 13-year-olds from the Ner HaThorah private Jewish school. There were no serious injuries. The attackers…
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