Tag: Judaism
the man who wanted to burn the Torah gives up his project
In response to the burnings of the Koran, Ahmad A, a Muslim man, had requested authorization to burn a Torah on Saturday July 15, in front of the Israeli embassy…
Edith Bruder: “History of Jewish-Black Relations, from the Bible to Black Lives Matter”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives Edith Bruder, researcher at the CNRS, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at UNISA (University of South Africa), specialist in Jewish emigrant…
Bread soon banned from Israeli hospitals?
A new text prohibits bringing into hospitals in the Jewish state foods made from wheat in particular, and containing leaven. And it’s not for health or dietary reasons. From our…
Edith Bruder: “The phenomenon of black Judaism, by its magnitude, is truly staggering”
The illustration is daring, almost provocative: a Jewish man – felt hat, curls – and a black woman kissing languidly. However, as this History of Jewish-Black Relations (Albin Michel), relations…
Literature: Polina Panassenko, between two languages, two countries, two identities
She was born Polina; in France, she becomes Pauline. A few letters and everything changes. When she arrived as a child in Saint-Étienne, the day after the fall of the…
Elie Buzyn, one of the last great French witnesses to Auschwitz, has died
Elie Buzyn, father of former French Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, died Monday May 23 at the age of 93. During his life, he worked to transmit the memory of…
New clashes between Palestinians and Israelis around the al-Aqsa mosque
More than twenty people were injured, this Sunday, April 17, during clashes between Palestinians and Israelis on and around the esplanade of the Mosques, in Jerusalem. After violent clashes on…
Eliette Abécassis, in the name of the father
In the Abécassis family, En Sol Majeur would like the girl. It’s a family where there is a thinker, where there is a go-between. Eliette Abecassis, born at the crossroads…
ten years after the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban, tribute to the victims
Tributes will take place at two locations in the city in the afternoon. First of all, at the beginning of the afternoon, at the Ohr Torah school, where Mohamed Merah…
Like Viktoria and her children, thousands of Ukrainians welcomed to Israel
More than 5,000 Ukrainians, fleeing the war, welcomed in Israel. And another 5,000 expected by next week. All do not necessarily have refugee status: Jewish Ukrainians, or descendants of Jews,…