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MARCH 2016 • VOLUME 49, ISSUE 9 Rabbi Melman
RABBI MELMAN’S MINUTES It is Tuesday evening and we have just France also fears for the future of France’s Jews. completed the second day of the annual JUF Student leaders have told us that as hard as Rabbinic Mission. I am at, perhaps, the most they are trying to combat the an!-Semi!sm, famous falafel restaurant outside of Israel, L’As they too are facing an uphill ba$le in their du Falafel in the Marias sec!on of Paris. I am academic se"ngs. si"ng with both Reform and Orthodox colPerhaps the most frightening message I have leagues as we reflect on the last couple of days. heard thus far came from a class of ninth grade I must tell you that I am somewhat sad. girls at a Paris Jewish Day School. Most of these Yesterday we focused girls want to make aliyah on many of the because they don’t feel as “France has an incredibly rich aspects of an!though they have a future Jewish history. Rashi and his descendSemi!sm from the in France. One girl transants, the Tosafot, gave us some of the past, and today we ferred to the school this greatest works related to the Bible explored the current year because she was and the Talmud. Jews have been state of French Jewry. bullied at her previous thriving in France for centuries. And France has an school for being Jewish. now, Jews here tell us they don’t know incredibly rich Jewish I le% for Paris thinking what will be.” history. Rashi and his that things were not good descendants, the for the Jews, but the truth Tosafot, gave us some of is that things are worse than I the greatest works related to the Bible and the imagined. I think the worst part, at least for me, Talmud. Jews have been thriving in France for is that so many people don’t feel a sense of centuries. And now, Jews here tell us they don’t hope. So many people are ready to just pack up know what will be. Every single Jewish ins!tuand leave. Aliyah numbers have doubled in the !on has armed military personnel in front of the past year. Thank God for the State of Israel – a building. Since the terrorist a$ack last year at place where Jews will always have a home. the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo and then the Tomorrow we will leave for Israel, but not Hyper Cacher (the Kosher supermarket), not to before stopping at the Hyper Cacher. I hope to men!on the a$ack just a few months ago at the talk to some of the folks at the supermarket to Bataclan Theatre, get a sense of how they feel today. Our security has been beefed up. The Jewish thoughts and prayers are with them as well as community wonders, how long can it last? the memory of those that were killed – just for We have met with many leaders of the being Jewish. I look forward to landing in Tel French Jewish community and everyone fears Aviv and making my way to the holy city of for the future. Nobody wants to leave, howev- Jerusalem. er ,most feel as though they may not have a choice. They don’t feel they are ge"ng support Am Yisrael Chai. of the government and many live in fear every day. That is not the way anyone should have to live his or her life. The Israeli Ambassador to