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This week in power: France rape and School burns

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December 4, 2014

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Awful attack
“Armed assailants broke into a suburban Paris residence of a Jewish couple, raped the woman while her husband was kept at bay, and robbed the couple,” ” target=”_blank”>according to The Yeshiva World News. The suspects “were looking for the Jewish man’s younger brother, who works in a Paris shop, believing he would be carrying large sums of money.”

Arson in Jerusalem
The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem is one of a kind, a school where Jews and Arabs come together. “But last Saturday, the hatred that has surged in Jerusalem in recent months intruded on Hand in Hand, which has tried to foster unity since its founding in 1998. One of its classrooms was set ablaze, books were burnt and graffiti reading 'Death to Arabs' was sprayed on a wall,” ” target=”_blank”>a Haaretz editorial said: “The educational model developed by Hand in Hand screams for much greater support from the Education Ministry. Now is the time to replicate it throughout the country and give it substantial support, to help reduce the polarization between Arabs and Jews.”

“But the problem is not just this one attack – it’s the atmosphere in the city and in the country,” wrote Ilene Prusher,

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