This Is The Way The World Ends
With the U.S. leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, a cartoonist envisions what happens next.
Paris
The Latest
-
Opinion -
Fast Forward Bannon Scores Big Win In Trump’s Withdrawal From Paris Deal
As President Trump reportedly prepares to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal, much of the credit for the move belongs to Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist said to have corralled the president into an exit. According to Politico, Bannon and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt have maneuvered for months…
-
Fast Forward Police Officer Killed, Two Wounded In Paris Shooting
A French policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in a shooting in central Paris on Thursday night before the gunman himself was killed by officers, police and the Interior Ministry said. The Islamic State group claimed the shooting via its Amaq news agency, naming the attacker as Abu Yousif the Belgian. President…
-
Fast Forward French Jewish Woman Thrown Off Her Paris Balcony In Possible Hate Crime
A 66-year old French Jewish woman was found dead on Tuesday morning after one of her neighbors threw her off her balcony, the daily newspaper Le Parisien reported. As details remain scarce, the Jewish Community Security Service, a body that tracks anti-Semitic incidents in France, wrote in a Facebook post that the Paris police had…
-
Fast Forward Paris Truck Crash That Toppled Jewish Gravestones Ruled Accidental
(JTA) — A truck belonging to the city of Paris plowed through a Jewish cemetery near the French capital and toppled 13 tombstones in what authorities said was an accident. No one was injured in the incident, which occurred March 20 in the northeastern suburb of Pantin. The driver of the municipal truck veered into…
-
Fast Forward Paris: Freemason Leader Attacked By Woman With Hammer Calling Him ‘Jew’
(JTA) — A leader of the Freemasons in France said he was assaulted on the street by a woman carrying a hammer who called him a Jew. Christophe Habas, the master of the Grand Orient of France, suffered superficial wounds in the incident Wednesday night as he was walking to a metro station in the…
-
Life Essay Examines Dual Citizenship ‘In This New Nationalist Era’
Writer Pamela Druckerman, who is Jewish, has a brilliant, timely essay in the New York Times about her experiences as an American acquiring French citizenship, in the era of Brexit and Trump. A taste: [D]uring my [citizenship] interview, I froze when asked why I wanted to become French. I remembered hearing that when a rabbi…
-
Fast Forward Paris Teen Gets 7 Years For Machete Attack On Jewish Teacher
(JTA) — A radicalized Paris teenager of Turkish descent who attacked a Jewish teacher with a machete was sentenced to seven years in jail. A juvenile court in Paris sentenced the teen in the January 2016 attack on Thursday, Reuters reported. The trial began on Wednesday. Benjamin Amsellem, the victim in the attack, told the…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
- 2
News Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria’s Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
- 3
News Curtis Sliwa has a plan to beat Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayor’s race — and it starts with apologizing to Jews
- 4
News What Zohran Mamdani has actually said about Jews, Israel and antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Melbourne protesters chant ‘Death to the IDF’ days after attacks on local synagogue, Israeli restaurant
-
News He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.
-
Fast Forward Trump says he didn’t know antisemitic history of ‘Shylock’ when he criticized bankers using the term
-
Fast Forward Most New Yorkers deterred by Zohran Mamdani’s support for Israel boycott, but 1 in 3 see it as a boon, poll shows
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
