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“On 29 April gang leader Youssouf Fofana, 28, took his seat in court, smiling defiantly and declaring: “Allah would be victorious.” After more than two months of closed-door hearings, Mr Fofana, rejecting any help from lawyers, was allowed to express his opinion in court for the last time.” more@BBC.co.uk
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“Every day he went to the Pletzel – the Jewish district – which had Rue D’Rosei [and] two shteiblach,” or synagogues, said Lax, 90 and retired in London, in an interview with Jewish Educational Media (JEM), producers of the DVD. “Number 17 was Chabad and 25 was everything, what you want,” meaning that […]
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Ilan Halimi’s mother wants a public trial of her son’s murderers
(Photo: People gather at the entrance of an audience room in a french court to yell at relatives of Youssouf Fofana, accused of killing a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi.) The murder of Ilan Halimi was an anti-Semitic crime. That fact, with which virtually everyone in France now concurs, was established at the opening of […]
” Have you ever fretted over which wine to serve your Jewish friends without having to resort to an untested Israeli import? Worry no more, there are more and more kosher wines available and even the well-known Mouton Cadet Bordeaux wines are available with a kosher label. And religious Jews need not scratch their heads […]
PARIS (CNN)– France bears responsibility for deporting Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II, the country’s highest court ruled Monday.
” France’s role in the deportation of its Jews was a taboo subject for decades after the war. The trial of Maurice Papon, a civil servant in the collaborationist Vichy government, for […]
“Une équipe de SPÉCIAL INVESTIGATION a vécu pendant deux mois, dans la bande de Gaza, la marche vers la guerre et l’offensive israélienne. Le 27 décembre dernier, l’état hébreu a lancé une vaste offensive contre le Hamas, mouvement islamiste très secret, considéré comme terroriste par les Etats-Unis et l’Union européenne. Le Hamas dirige la bande […]
Rabbi Belinow Mendel speaks with a journalist next to his synagogue in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on January 12, 2009 after a few people laid down and lit several gas cylinders in front of the synagogue. French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said in statement that all efforts would be taken “to find the perpetrators of the […]
“It’s not quite the Dreyfus Affair, at least not yet. But France is divided again over power and the Jews. While the United States has been debating The New Yorker’s caricature of Barack Obama as a Muslim, France has gone off the deep end over a brief item in the country’s leading satirical magazine portraying […]
Shmoolik- Les Enfants d’Israël (Children of Israel)
Sitruk explained that because Shavuot, according to the Jewish calendar, is usually celebrated in May or June, it coincides with school and university exams.“Since several years Jewish students complain and write to us to deplore the coincidence between their exams and Shavuot,” Sitruk, said.This bring difficulties and uncertainties for many students who don’t want to […]
