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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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Food Finding Love and Ice Cream in Southern France
“Meals can, and often do, tell stories,” says Elizabeth Bard, a 39 year-old writer, of the huge Seders her mother once hosted at her childhood home in Teaneck, New Jersey. “When I first arrived in France almost everything I learned about the culture I learned “autour de la table,” around the table. Now settled in…
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Fast Forward French City of Metz Irks Some WIth Jewish Holiday Street Closing
The French city of Metz closed a street to vehicular traffic for the High Holidays season, provoking angry reactions from some Muslims. Rabbin Bloch Street was closed on the afternoon of Sept. 6, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, and will reopen at the close of Yom Kippur, the night of Sept. 14, according to…
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