Posted on 05/06/2012 11:28:27 AM PDT by Nachum
A record-breaking 5,000 people from throughout France have thus far visited an aliyah fair taking place in the heart of Paris today, the same day as the French run-off election. The fair, organized and run by the Jewish Agency, is being attended by Jewish Agency Chairman of the Executive Natan Sharansky, as well as by representatives of various Israeli local authorities and government bodies, who are meeting with participants and presenting them with various opportunities for settling in Israel.
Jewish Agency Chairman Sharansky noted emotionally that thousands of members of the French Jewish community had visited the fair. “I cannot recall having seen such a massive number of people interested in aliyah since the days when lines of people stretched out of the Israeli embassy in Moscow,” said Sharansky.
The French Jewish community is the largest in Europe, with some 500,000 members.
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In an attempt to calm the growing violence against French Jews, Francoise Hollande has announced the planned reopening of a facility for their protection in Drancy. The renovation will take about six months and then the Jews may begin to move in to the facility.
Us.
They had places like that 70 years ago. Weren’t they called ‘’’concentration camps’’?
Yep. Drancy was the main transit camp they were shipped to prior to taking a trip to Auschwitz.
“Protective custody’’ That’s what the Nazis called it. History is repeating itself. Is this what our fathers and grandfathers died for in 1944? So the French, rather than toss the Saracens, out are putting the Jews into ‘’protective custody’’?
Yep.
Amen- Only about 7 million more returning from the diaspora and then Jesus comes.
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