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...that the tale had been completely credible - France today is a place where such acts of anti-Semitism and racism are commonplace. "If reaction was so intense, it's because people unfortunately know that such a horrific scenario is plausible," says Yonathan Arfi, president of the Union of French Jewish Students. France's hate-crime wave extends far beyond a single well-publicized case. "Whether this is the 10th or 20th assault of its kind changes nothing," says former Socialist Economy and Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn. "We have a real problem." At least the denial stage is now over...
...have usually been lone petty thugs or informal groups of delinquents," says Gérard Fellous, secretary-general of the N.C.C.H.R. "So far, there's been no sign of membership or organization by extremist political or Islamist groups." That absence of an organized link is of little comfort to Jewish leaders. They say French reluctance to denounce anti-Semitism explains why attacks on Jews far outnumber those on France's 5 million Muslims. But Muslim leaders counter that the assumption that French Arabs are behind the rise of anti-Semitism - an idea Leblanc's fictive assault was built upon...
...first we were civil. I asked why she believed in God; she told me; I pondered. She asked what Jewish holidays were like; I brought her to my great aunt’s house for Passover; she got tipsy on Manichewitz and appreciated my culture. But then we got more comfortable. And, between debates that made us mad and sometimes even made me cry, we learned more. The most important lesson for both of us, I think, was that we weren’t so different after all. And the most important lesson for me individually was that...
Goldhirsh, who is Jewish, says that while she is not highly observant, she does identify closely with the cultural aspects of the religion...
Goldhirsh founded Reaching Common Ground in partnership with The Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies (ICJS), a non-profit organization that focuses on increasing interfaith understanding...