The head of the Jewish community in the southern French city of Marseille has urged local Jews to avoid wearing a yarmulka in public, a day after an attack on a Jewish teacher by an Islamic State-inspired Muslim.
“Not wearing the kippah can save lives and nothing is more important,” Zvi Ammar told the La Provence daily newspaper. “It really hurts to reach that point but I don’t want anyone to die in Marseille because they have a kippah on their head.”
On Monday, a 15-year-old Turkish Kurd attacked a Jewish teacher, Binyomin Amsellem, who was wearing a yarmulka, with a machete. Amsellem sustained injuries to his shoulder and hand.
French Chief Rabbi Chaim Korsia argued against the advice by Ammar.
“We should not give in to anything, we will continue to wear the kippah,” he said.
France, which is home to Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish communities, has been under a state of emergency since Islamic State terrorists murdered 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13.
Marseille is home to about 80,000 Jews, the third-largest urban population of Jews in Europe after Paris and London.
The French Jewish community on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the Islamist terror attack at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris. Four Jews were killed in that attack.
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{Matzav.com}
i have a better way…maybe we should c’v convert to Islam and change our names to ibraham, muhamed etc
A much better solution is to pack the bags and leave France.
Another way, and get back at France, all yidden emigrate to eretz yisroel then the their economy will iy’h go down the drain as other countries who chased the yidden away, eg spain avimalech from Grorr (parshes toldos), and then they’ll beg yidden to return like Spain etc etc. And they will be left with those chayas pereh adam and boy will they suffer from those Islamists . Because when no Jews they’re next
It has been risky to wear Yarmulkas in France for decades. Don’t fool yourself into
thinking that most of those who are looking to make trouble are fooled by a cap
who is directly responsible for the anti-Semitic climate in France because he visited there and advised the Jews to leave.
Netanyahu is directly responsible for the anti-Semitic climate in France because he visited there and advised the Jews to leave.
Who died and made this guy a leader?! How about arm up and fight back, or better yet move to Israel.