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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Rebecca Benhamou

Best-selling author Eliette Abecassis’s new book 'Alyah' asks whether French Jews should stay, or leave for Israel. (courtesy)
June 7, 2015, 12:20 pm
Bestselling French-Jewish author contemplates move to Israel
Eliette Abecassis wrote her latest novel ‘Alyah’ after ‘Europe’s old demon surfaced’ in Paris during last summer’s Gaza war
By Rebecca Benhamou
Antisémitox: first aid for anti-Semitism. (courtesy)
December 24, 2014, 1:02 pm
French sell ‘cure’ for anti-Semitism
For a mere five euros, you too can order ‘Antisémitox: First aid for anti-Semitism’
By Rebecca Benhamou
Scene from 'Being Jewish and Black in France' (courtesy)
June 21, 2014, 4:10 pm
Black Jews in France foresaw Dieudonne fiasco
Feeling bitter and isolated within the Jewish community, black Jews say they’re asked to choose one identity to express — and suppress
By Rebecca Benhamou
UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier and the original poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500-year connection to the land of Israel, in January, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)
January 21, 2014, 11:55 pm
UNESCO exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel rescheduled for June
UN body had faced storm of criticism for canceling show under Arab pressure, claiming it could ‘endanger peace process’
By Haviv Rettig Gur, Raphael Ahren and Rebecca Benhamou
The invitation to the cancelled UNESCO event on 3,500 years of Jewish connection to the Land of Israel
January 21, 2014, 2:22 pm
UNESCO’s scrapping of Israel exhibit ‘a slap in the face of every Jew’
Simon Wiesenthal Center, which created show tracing 3,500 years of Jewish ties to land of Israel, urges European leaders to join US protest
By Rebecca Benhamou
Exterior of the 14th century Carpentras Synagogue. (photo credit: courtesy)
November 27, 2013, 4:09 am
Remnants of Provence’s Jewry set to be UNESCO site
With an application on file, the former ghettos of France’s 14th century Juifs du Pape may just be the next big thing for French tourism
By Rebecca Benhamou
A French bill proposing separate labeling for kosher and halal meat is stirring unease among the country's Jewish and Muslim citizens. (Illustrative photo via YouTube)
August 10, 2013, 4:22 am
Battle escalates over kosher slaughter in France
Alleged death threats and accusations of anti-Semitism follow proposal that religiously approved meat be labeled separately
By Rebecca Benhamou
Alécio de Andrade, 'Rue Pavee,' 1975 (photo credit: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme)
July 30, 2013, 11:57 am
Is the Parisian Jewish quarter losing its soul?
Once the heart of the community, Le Marais is the current battleground between gentrification and French Jewish life, past and present
By Rebecca Benhamou
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur (photo credit: Jean-François Paga)
June 21, 2013, 11:51 am
No liberté and égalité in France for women rabbis
Promoting a progressive French Jewish movement is a Sisyphean battle, says Delphine Horvilleur, one of only two female rabbis
By Rebecca Benhamou
A scene from 'The Attack' (photo credit: courtesy)
June 6, 2013, 4:48 pm
Arab boycott of Lebanese movie filmed in Israel is the ‘height of obscenity’
In Times of Israel interview, Algerian author denounces Arab League as a ‘brotherhood of depraved men’ — and they don’t understand art, anyway
By Rebecca Benhamou
May 31, 2013, 2:01 am
Is French Jewry’s elderly leadership losing touch?
In the wake of the umbrella organization CRIF’s recent election of Roger Cukierman, 76, many are questioning its relevance and capacity for renewal
By Rebecca Benhamou
Robert and Gerald Finaly, the most notorious case of French baptized Jewish children hidden after World War II.
May 27, 2013, 5:47 am
Jewish children hidden twice over by the Church
A French historian examines a 1946 directive forbidding Catholic authorities from handing over baptized Jewish children to their families after the Holocaust
By Rebecca Benhamou
Chocolate falls at the Bayonne Chocolate Days festival. This year's celebrations take place May 10 and 11. (photo credit: courtesy)
May 6, 2013, 5:25 pm
France thanks Sephardic Jews for chocolate, 500 years too late
Fleeing the Inquisition, Jews brought precious chocolate to Bayonne, which eventually became France’s chocolate capital. Residents learned chocolate-making from the Jews — then promptly evicted them
By Rebecca Benhamou
The French Justice Ministry is reviewing name-change applications on a case-by-case basis. (Croquant via Wikipedia)
April 3, 2013, 4:15 am
French Jews win right to choose their own names
After a historically charged legal fight, Jewish families can revert to their foreign ancestors’ last names
By Rebecca Benhamou
French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti returned six stolen paintings to American heir Thomas Selldorff at Tuesday's ceremony. (Michel Euler/AP)
March 20, 2013, 11:02 pm
France launches drive to find owners of Nazi-stolen art
Yearlong campaign begins with culture ministry’s return of seven looted paintings to surviving heirs
By Rebecca Benhamou
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