Jewish Exponent
03-02-2006
In recent years, as anti-Semitism has grown in Europe, concern over the
fate of French Jewry -- the largest in the Diaspora outside of Israel and
the United States -- has led to a debate about how to confront the problem.
Leaders of French Jewry have resented blanket condemnation of their society
by Jews in other nations. They rightly consider themselves the best experts
on the situation, and remain uninterested in advice from Americans, no
matter how well intentioned.
But the savage torture and murder of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi by a gang of
North African immigrants to France seems to have not only heightened the
concern about the safety of French Jews, but also ...