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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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Opinion Quebec’s Kippah Problem
In 1738, a young Catholic man named Jacques La Fargue came to New France. Jacques La Fargue turned out to be Esther Brandeau, a young Jewish woman who had disguised herself to come to the new world. When she refused to convert, she was sent back to France. Jews were officially allowed to settle in…
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Opinion The French Intellectual Who Is Both in the Shadows and in the Spotlight
Have you heard about the sinister role the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, in cahoots with the Israeli government, played in bringing down the government of Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi? And that BHL — aka He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-but-Wears-White-Shirts-Opened-to-the-Navel — used telekinesis to achieve his nefarious goal? These, at least, are the questions that recent news dispatches from Turkey…
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Fast Forward France’s National Front Party Suspends Candidate Over Anti-Semitism
France’s ultranationalist National Front Party suspended one of its candidates for posting a picture of a burning Israeli flag and anti-Semitic statements on Facebook. Francois Chatelain of Neuville-en-Ferrain near Lille posted the picture earlier this month with a caption reading: “This is France here!” according to the Le Figaro daily newspaper. Another picture showed a…
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