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How to use Facebook to build friendships between French Muslims and Jews

Using social networking, a group called Shalom | Paix | Salam is trying to change the nature of the relationship between Jews and Muslims in France — one that is marked more by friction and conflict than by friendship — without shying away from the tough issues.

By Alex Weisler July 18, 2011 5:25 pm

In the Belly of the Beast

The headquarters of France’s National Front party is located in Nanterre, a middle class suburb in the west of Paris. It was cold and overcast when I arrived there in mid-afternoon, the coldest and grayest day all week, and it gave the neighborhood a bleaker quality than it probably deserves. On a quiet residential street […]

March 18, 2011 2:49 am

At the Quai d’Orsay

Valerie Hoffenberg is the kind of Jew I was told did not exist in France. A former director of the American Jewish Committee field office in Paris, and a bigwig at the CRIF (the rough — and I stress rough — equivalent of the Conference of Presidents), Hoffenberg has been serving for over a year […]

March 15, 2011 7:16 pm

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