The statement did not mention either Louis IX’s crusades in Egypt and Tunisia or the policies he established that forced Jews from France.
Some time after King Louis IX returned to France from his first Crusade in 1254, an anonymous French Jew wrote a letter to the king, who would become the only French monarch to ever be canonized in the Catholic Church.
“I never thought about it until now. Makes them easier to share.”
“I have to stop running, turn around, and confront it,” he wrote in a candid Facebook post.
A Missouri Republican who has made anti-Semitic and other bigoted statements handily won a primary for the state’s House of Representatives.
A growing community of Orthodox-affiliated Jews in a midwestern city “with midwestern values.”
A traditional synagogue focused on outreach to the unaffiliated, with a diverse range of observances among members.
Greitens, a former Navy Seal and the nation’s only Jewish governor, had considered a presidential run before his sex scandal.
The woman planned to testify in Greitens’ felony invasion-of-privacy case until charges were abruptly dropped last week by the St. Louis court.
The charges were dropped after Greitens’ lawyers planned to call the top prosecutor as a witness.