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...safety. His kids will have plenty of company: in the last 10 years, the number of students in Jewish schools in greater Paris has doubled to 30,000, with thousands more on waiting lists. Those who can afford it are simply moving out, buying apartments in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, Netanya or Ashdod. El Al flights to and from Europe now regularly feature in-flight ads, in French, for property in Israel. And according to Israeli press reports, tourist trips by French Jews - some clearly exploring immigration - have skyrocketed in recent years. The exodus reflects a genuine crisis...
...children there," says Zerah, who brought his wife and two youngsters to Israel. "My son couldn't walk to the Jewish school with his yarmulke on." Zerah followed his brother Marc who, in 1999, gave up a thriving gynecological practice in Paris's 12th arrondissement to move to Jerusalem with his wife and four children. Marc didn't publicly wear his yarmulke in France. Now he keeps it on all day. "It isn't just a physical immigration. It's spiritual," he says. Paul says most of his Parisian friends are considering such a move, and the numbers back...
...Selectively Permeable Wall Matt Rees' "Letter From Jerusalem" [Aug. 2] referred to the separation wall being built by the Israelis, saying it might prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from crossing to Israel. However, it has not prevented Israeli army incursions into the West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands, and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. Azzam El-Hait Cairo
...have ventured to the Society Islands to "civilize" the natives. When the shipmen and the emissaries of religion meet on the island,they naturally discuss (in perfect Melvillean cadences) the survival of the fittest and the plans of God. Yet all their talk of progress and a New Jerusalem has a slightly piquant air because we know what the future holds in store for them. An earlier section in Cloud Atlas (Random House; 509 pages) has told us that civilization will destroy itself with its consuming greed and Homo sapiens will return to being primitive again, in thrall to animist...
...consent to the killing of Darfurians. Africa should hold the leaders of Sudan accountable. The U.S. cannot be expected to go running to solve every problem in the world. It has its hands full dealing with the mess it has created in Iraq. Bukola A. Jejeloye Lagos, Nigeria Jerusalem's Security Guards "Daring to Live Again" caught the tempo and spirit of today's more upbeat Jerusalem [Aug. 2]. Correspondent Matt Rees commented on the Ethiopian Jews who work as restaurant security guards and search customers' bags and swipe patrons with metal detectors. Rees noted that most of the guards...