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  • In secular France, MPs wear kippot to National Assembly

    01/13/2016 4:28:11 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 11 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/1/16 | Cynthia Blank
    A call earlier this week from the leader of the Jewish community in Marseilles for Jews to stop wearing kippot in public caused a fierce uproar in France, with scores of Frenchman putting on the ritual head covering in a demonstration of solidarity with Jews French parliamentarians Meir Habib and Claude Goasguen joined the demonstration on Wednesday, proudly adorning kippot at the National Assembly as a show of solidarity after a brutal anti-Semitic stabbing attack in Marseilles on Monday. The move was very unusual given France's principle of "secularism" and its prohibition against wearing religious articles in official or state...