Word: barouhiel
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...Pressure has come from the grass roots. "With this second intifadeh, there was a crisis of conscience in the Jewish community in France," says Claudine Barouhiel, a spokeswoman for Consistoire, a 200-year-old organization that represents religious French Jewish groups. Jean Kahn, Consistoire's director, is more blunt. "A lot of people in France now believe that Arafat has just one sole objective: the destruction of Israel." That sentiment has helped transform France's Jewish community into what Barouhiel calls a "much more active and militant, much more politically organized force." The shift has been evident both...
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