Solal Sarkozy, French President’s First Grandchild, Has Bris

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sarkozyFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first grandson, Solal, has had a bris milah. Solal, the son of Jean Sarkozy and Jessica Sebaoun, was born January 13 in the western Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.

“It happened like all circumcisions, with a rabbi and a mohel,” Jean Balkany, the president’s friend, who was present at the bris for Solal, told Jewish radio Radio J.

President Sarkozy did not attend the bris, apparently because of work-related obligations, but Balkany said the president’s entire family was present, including his parents and brother.

Jessica Sebaoun is “a very observant Sephardic” Jew and the French president “sees no problem with that,” said Balkany, a member of the French parliament and mayor of Levallois-Perret, a town northwest of Paris.

Sarkozy, Balkany noted, has a “Catholic family, a Jewish grandfather and evidently, he was marked by that double culture.”

Balkany, who is Jew (his father was deported to Auschwitz), said that when he met Sarkozy more than 20 years ago, one of their first conversations was about their shared “Jewish origins.”

Sarkozy’s first grandchild was named Solal, after the hero of a novel by Swiss writer Albert Cohen. The first name Solal comes from the Hebrew ‘Solel’ which means “to carve a path,” showing the way for others and leading by example.

Jean Sarkozy is a law student and regional councilor west of Paris. He married Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, an heiress of a Jewish family that founded the electronics retailer group Darty. The Darty family founded what became an eponymous nationwide chain of big-box home appliance stores, now owned by Britain’s KESA Electricals group.

The French president, who turned 55 last month, has two sons from his first marriage – Jean and Pierre – and a third, 12-year-old Louis, from his second.

Nicolas Sarkozy has Jewish roots as his mother Andrée was born to the Mallah family, one of the oldest Jewish families of Salonika in northern Greece.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. ‘Jessica Sebaoun is “a very observant Sephardic” Jew’, according to this report.

    Oh yeah?

    Then why did she marry into the Catholic Sarkozy family?

    Yiddishkeit mamash!

  2. Nicolas Sarkozy has Jewish roots as his mother Andrée was born to the Mallah family, one of the oldest Jewish families of Salonika in northern Greece.

    Doesn’t that make him Jewish?

  3. Let’s see. Was the Bris revolting? Is someone here suggesting it should not have happened? With a bit of luck and warmth some of you may be in a position to ensure this child is exposed to his heritage and becomes a significant mesora yid.

    PS. Just keep the father away from EJF. Now that [EJF] is revolting.

  4. I am a Christian and I too see conflict between the two cultures…It’s hard to have a successful relationship with someone who has a completely different heritage! Each is proud and happy with his/her traditions but someone will always “suffer” or feel he/she is missing something.

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