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Sunday, May 29, 2016
French Jews choose Sephardi to lead them
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrance’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe, chose a Sephardi Jew as its leader Sunday for the first time in half a century.
Francis Kalifat, 63, said his priority as president of the CRIF umbrella grouping of Jewish organizations was to “fight against anti-Semitism in all its forms.”
He succeeds 79-year-old Roger Cukierman for a three-year term, breaking the dominance of Ashkenazi Jews in the organization which groups together 70 associations.
— AFP
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