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Sheikh Omar Kayal, imam of the Bilal mosque (right), sits with Israeli Muslim clerics at a reception for French Imam Hassen Chalghoumi in Majd Al-Krum, May 29 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
September 2, 2013, 2:11 pm
French interfaith imam assaulted, called ‘Zionist’ in Tunisia
Hassen Chalghoumi uninjured in attack in presence of wife and children; assailant arrested
By JTA
Sheikh Omar Kayal, imam of the Bilal mosque (right), sits with Israeli Muslim clerics at a reception for French Imam Hassen Chalghoumi in Majd Al-Krum, May 29 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
May 30, 2013, 7:12 pm
French and Israeli Muslims partner in the name of religious tolerance
In the aftermath of the Toulouse terrorist attacks, one imam’s transformative visit to Yad Vashem leads to a rare alliance
By Elhanan Miller
The bodies of the Toulouse Jewish school shooting victims, shrouded in prayer shawls, prior to burial at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem, March 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
March 17, 2013, 4:27 pm
Toulouse victims died ‘because they were Jewish,’ Hollande says
French president marks anniversary of shooting spree that killed seven, including three children and a rabbi
By Aaron Kalman
Karen Allali of the Jewish Guides and Scouts of France and Jean-Charles Zerbib (far right), an official of the Unified Jewish Social Fund, speak in Marseille, where Jewish groups are struggling to absorb cutbacks in government funding. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
January 3, 2013, 3:05 am
French Jews pay a price for government effort to curb extremism
Attempts to cut off funding to radical Muslim groups are harming Jewish organizations, while Christian groups haven’t been affected
By Cnaan Liphshiz
French Imams lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial site in Yad Vashem, Tuesday (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)
November 13, 2012, 5:16 pm
French imams visit Yad Vashem, say life is more important than holy books
‘No religion justifies killing,’ Drancy’s Muslim community head writes in visitors’ book at Holocaust memorial
By Ron Friedman and Aaron Kalman
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yona Metzger (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 5, 2012, 10:27 am
Israel’s chief rabbi to speak at Paris mosque
Invitation from Imam Hassen Chalghoumi comes on the heels of a wave of anti-Semitic violence in France
By Philip Podolsky
Hassen Chalghoumi at the Hall of Names in Yad Vashem, June 2012 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller / Times of Israel)
June 4, 2012, 10:07 pm
‘Imam of the Jews’ pays historic visit to Yad Vashem
Hassen Chalghoumi of France says Holocaust deniers are accomplices in the crime
By Elhanan Miller
French students in a moment of silence the day after gunman Mohamed Merah murdered three children and a teacher at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, March 2012 (photo credit: Michel Spingler/AP)
March 22, 2012, 5:31 pm
Prominent French imam: Mohamed Merah is unworthy of sharing the prophet’s name
Hassen Chalghoumi says Toulouse shootings were attacks on all of humanity
By Asher Zeiger
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