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News Will Spike in French Emigration Decimate Jewish Life?
(JTA) — Taken alone, the attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket near Paris is nothing that French Jews haven’t seen before. Arguably, the 2012 attack that caught the Toulouse community unprepared was more traumatic because children were killed. And the 1982 attack on the Goldenberg Jewish restaurant in Paris was deadlier than last week’s…
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Opinion Should French Jews Stay — or Should They Go?
No sooner had the deadly siege of the kosher supermarket in Paris come to an awful end than Israel’s political leaders issued their emphatic pleas for French Jews to emigrate. “To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose…
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Opinion Paris, You Aren’t Alone
Jewish children wave French flags as the interior minister vowed to step up security after the kosher grocery terror attack./Getty Images Je suis Charlie, je suis Juif. That’s why I fly to Paris – to let my fellow and sister Jews know they are not alone, that Jews around the world care deeply about the…
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Fast Forward Kosher Grocery Victims Charged $13K for Jerusalem Funerals
Israel’s burial association charged each of the families of the Paris kosher supermarket victims nearly $13,000 for their Jerusalem burial plots and funerals. The charges were levied by the Chevra Kadisha, part of the Religious Services Ministry, after the families refused to bury the men in multi-story tombs, which would have been free, Ynet reported…
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Fast Forward Thousands Mourn 4 Paris Kosher Grocery Victims at Israel Funeral
Thousands attended the funeral in Jerusalem of the four victims of the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris. “We wanted you alive, we wanted for you, life,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said in an address at the funeral Tuesday at the Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem. “At moments such as these, I stand before…
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Opinion Why ‘Jew’ Is Rarely Spoken Word in France — Even After Kosher Grocery Terror
Many observers, both French and foreign, have hailed Sunday’s march in Paris as a historic milestone. More than a million citizens, along with dozens of world leaders, joined together as a sign of resistance to last week’s acts of terrorism, and as the gauge for the persistence of democratic ideals. The event had all the…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Defends Decision To Attend Paris March
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to visit the site of the Paris supermarket attack less than a day after reports surfaced that the French president asked him to not attend the unity march. Netanyahu on Monday met with French Jewish community leaders, calling the memorial service the previous night at Paris’ Great Synagogue…
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Fast Forward Terror Girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene Fled Before Paris Spree Started
(Reuters) — The suspected female accomplice of Islamist militants behind attacks in Paris was in Turkey five days before the killings and crossed into Syria on Jan. 8, Turkish officials said on Monday. France launched a search for 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene after police killed her partner Amedy Coulibaly while storming a Jewish supermarket where he had…
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