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FRENCH JEWS LEAVE FOR ISRAEL IN INCREASING NUMBERS

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PARIS (AP) — Increasing numbers of French Jews are leaving for Israel, citing dim economic prospects and a sense of being caught between an increasingly influential far right and militant Islam. More than 5,000 are on track to leave this year, the most since after the Six-Day War in 1967.

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France has the world's third-largest Jewish population after Israel and the United States - about 500,000, according to rough estimates.

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Dramatic acts of anti-Semitism coupled with France's stagnant economy — which includes a 25 percent youth unemployment rate, compared with 11 percent in Israel — make a hard choice easier.

Laurie Levy, 26, left in 2013. A native of the southern city of Toulouse, her departure came after attacks by a French-born Islamic radical on a Jewish school and soldiers left seven people dead, including three children and a rabbi. She has given up on a career in French law and left behind her parents and siblings.

In Tel Aviv, she no longer feels the need to hide the Star of David she wears around her neck. But there are other concerns: Her parents are unlikely to uproot themselves and she worries about their future back in France.

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"Life is beautiful here. You work. You go to the beach. You see your friends. You're not afraid," said Levy, who now works at an Israeli design firm.

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French Jews say they have the added burden of watching the rise of an increasingly militant Islam and a revitalized far right. In May, on the eve of Europe-wide elections that saw the National Front party — whose founder has been repeatedly convicted of anti-Semitism — sweep into first place in France, a gunman attacked a Jewish museum in Belgium. The suspect arrested was a Frenchman who authorities say recently returned from fighting with Islamic extremists in Syria.

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The number of French Jews migrating to Israel has been around 2,000 annually since the mid-1990s, decreasing from a peak of 5,292 after the 1967 Six-Day War.

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David Kadoch is among those on the cusp of departure. Born in a Paris suburb, the married father of two will be joining his two brothers in Israel in August. A network administrator, he's confident that his skills will translate well in his new home even though he speaks what he laughingly describes as "Biblical Hebrew."

"People laugh when I speak Hebrew. I can make myself understood more or less, but I lack any grammar," he said.

Kadoch cited a combination of economic, social and spiritual factors for leaving, including concerns about the future for his two daughters, ages 1 and 3, if Europe returns to its dark past.

"There is a rise in anti-Semitism, there's a difficult social climate, there's a horrid economy," he said of his native land. "From one side and the other, you have people who are hostile to Jews, for completely divergent reasons. And I don't see how, in this context, history can fail to repeat itself."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/french-jews-leave-israel-increasing-numbers

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TBoneTX Grand Master

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Ominous.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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eieio Experienced

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The word Jew is considered derogatory by some Waspish types, btw;)

Yea....like me. I am not even Jewish yet people call me a Jew all the time. I don't know what is wrong with people these days. :ranting:

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Would be better if mods that understood sarcasm were recruited, I've had posts deleted by one for that reason lol

My blog about my visa journey and adjusting to my new life in the US http://albiontoamerica.wordpress.com/

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Would be better if mods that understood sarcasm were recruited, I've had posts deleted by one for that reason lol

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humour. :angry:

Which is why short people, like me, are so good at it. ;)

Don't interrupt me when I'm talking to myself

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