{"id":47914,"date":"2015-01-16T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_jews_across_france_the_oldest_question_returns_stay_put_or_leave\/"},"modified":"2015-01-16T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:30:45","slug":"for_jews_across_france_the_oldest_question_returns_stay_put_or_leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47914","title":{"rendered":"(Wash Post) For Jews across France, the oldest question returns: Stay put or leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after four Jewish men were killed in a hostage-taking siege at a kosher market in Paris last week, the Israeli leadership leapt to offer refuge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray; the state of Israel is your home,\u201d\u009d Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address.<\/p>\n<p>If a new wave of French Jews move to Israel, they will join what was a record 7,000 compatriots who made the journey last year. But that movement is already rekindling debate among Jews, who ask: Is it better for French Jews to come to Israel or stay home and insist that French society, including the country\u2019s swelling Muslim population, accommodate them?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/in-israel-debate-over-whether-french-jews-should-come--or-stay-home\/2015\/01\/15\/dca63384-9aa3-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after four Jewish men were killed in a hostage-taking siege at a kosher market in Paris last week, the Israeli leadership leapt to offer refuge. \u201cTo all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47914\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,168,200,144,468,133,565,429,203,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-france","category-history","category-israel","category-judaism","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}