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Pro-Palestinian demonstrations threaten the Jews; Jewish culture in the mountains of Southern FranceRead More
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Due to the attacks on synagogues and street brawls, both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been forbidden; the 72nd anniversary of the largest roundup and deportation of French Jewry.Read More
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Court orders town to withdraw honor to former terrorist; a new chief rabbi of France is elected.Read More
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This year’s festival of Judesmo (Ladino) culture emphasizes Sephardi music, dance and cuisine: writer Marek Halter urges Jews not to leave France.
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The annual forum of Jewish organizations met in the former Jewish garment district; Maccabia games this Sunday in Val-de-Marne.Read More
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Love was the theme of this year’s Yiddish cultural festival; large Yiddish ball featuring klezmer dance and tango.Read More
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An anti-Semitic scandal swirls around the honorary president of the National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen; an exhibit by the artist Eva Bertoin.Read More
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French Jews remember the American Jewish soldiers who fell during the invasion of Normandy.Read More
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Anti-Semitism keeps rising in Europe, and especially in France; new lawyers’ group in Lyon will combat xenophobia and anti-Semitism; a documentary about a girl seeking her Ashkenazi roots through music.Read More
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Israeli films and not just political ones are becoming popular in France, among the small eccentric political parties attempting to enter the European Parliament is the Democratic Esperanto PartyRead More
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Sharon Bar-Kochva was born in Israel and now lives in Paris. She works as the librarian and Yiddish teacher for adults and children at the Paris Yiddish Center/Medem Library. She also teaches Yiddish at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Currently, she is concluding her dissertation on pseudonyms in Yiddish and Hebrew Literature at the Inalco University in Paris.Read More
שרון בר־כּוכבֿא איז געבוירן געוואָרן אין ישׂראל און וווינט אין פּאַריז. זי אַרבעט ווי אַ ביבליאָטעקאַרשע און אַ ייִדיש־לערערקע פֿאַר דערוואַקסענע און קינדער אינעם פּאַריזער ייִדיש צענטער־מעדעם ביבליאָטעק, און לערנט אויך ייִדיש אין דער אינסטיטוציע פֿאַר העכערע לימודים „עקאָל נאָרמאַל סופּעריער”. זי שרײַבט אַ דאָקטאָר־דיסערטאַציע וועגן פּסעוודאָנימען אין דער ייִדישער און אין דער העברעיִשער ליטעראַטור, אין דעם אוניווערסיטעט אינאַלקאָ אין פּאַריז.Read More