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A month after kosher market attack, French Jews plan an exodus

WASHINGTON POST by Griff Witte February 7, 2015 …In homes, in shops and in synagogues guarded night and day by soldiers wielding assault rifles, conversations are dominated by an agonizing choice: stay in France and risk becoming the victim of … Continue reading

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Election Envy: The Europeans and the Jews

PJ MEDIA by David P. Goldman January 21, 2015 ….The truth is that it doesn’t matter much whether the assimilated, secularized Jews of Europe stay or leave, for most of their children and very few of their grandchildren will be … Continue reading

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US, Britain and France will be next if ICC indicts Israel

JERUSALEM POST by Evelyn Gordon January 19, 2015 “If Israel falls victim” to the International Criminal Court, “any democracy around the world may find itself in the same danger,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned this weekend after the court announced … Continue reading

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Packing Time for France’s Jews

WALL STREET JOURNAL by Bret Stephens January 20, 2015 The Fifth Republic has been a good home for Jews. A Sixth Republic may not be so hospitable…..But what happens when the real crisis hits—not necessarily in the form of a … Continue reading

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France’s Moment of Truth

PJ MEDIA by Michel Gurfinkiel January 16, 2015 ….What soon became apparent was that only the Old French (the culturally European and Judeo-Christian French) took part in the vigils and marches and that they were delighted to be together, whereas … Continue reading

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France’s demographic bad luck

USA TODAY by Glenn Harlan Reynolds January 19, 2015 Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein once wrote: Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then … Continue reading

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The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris

COMMENTARY by The Editors February 1, 2015 The jihadist siege of a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris on January 9 was not the beginning of a new threat to French Jews and the Jews of Europe. Rather, it was … Continue reading

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‘We Haven’t Shown Enough Outrage:’ French PM Issues Blistering Denunciation of Antisemitism [VIDEO]

ALGEMEINER by Ben Cohen January 14, 2015 It was an electrifying moment: in a voice crackling with anger and pain, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls denounced the rise of antisemitism in France before the country’s National Assembly yesterday, pointedly observing, … Continue reading

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Netanyahu Rained on France’s Parade (Thank God)

JEWISH PRESS by Shalom Bear January 12, 2015 There’s indication and reports that the French government did everything it could to try and dissuade Israeli PM Netanyahu from visiting France and participating in their unity march, and when that failed, … Continue reading

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At Paris aliya fair, French Jews ponder their future

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Elhanan Miller January 12, 2015 The government tells them to stay, Israeli leaders tell them to go, but despite the rhetoric, economic challenges may hold the potential immigrants back. As Parisians flocked Sunday to Place de la … Continue reading

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