{"id":52893,"date":"2016-01-25T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=52893"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:45:55","slug":"isis-inspires-attacks-on-french-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/community\/isis-inspires-attacks-on-french-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Inspires Attacks on French Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times:<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"145\" data-total-count=\"145\">MARSEILLE, France \u2014 It was the heavy leather-bound volume of the Torah he was carrying that shielded Benjamin Amsellem from the machete blows.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"264\" data-total-count=\"409\">His attacker, a teenage fanatic who the police say was inspired by the Islamic State, was trying to decapitate Mr. Amsellem, a teacher at a local Jewish school. But Mr. Amsellem used the Torah \u2014 the only defense at hand \u2014 to deflect the blade and save himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"407\" data-total-count=\"816\">It was the third such <a title=\"Brief wire service report on the incident\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2016\/01\/13\/world\/europe\/ap-eu-france-anti-semitic-attack.html\">knife attack<\/a> since October on a Jew in Marseille, where the Jewish population, around 70,000, is the second largest in <a title=\"More news and information about France.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/france\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">France<\/a> after Paris. And it was the latest example of how <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about France.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/france\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">France<\/a> is confronting both the general threat of terrorism, especially after two <a title=\"Times coverage of attacks in Paris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/attacks-in-paris?inline=nyt-classifier\">large-scale attacks in Paris<\/a> last year, and a particular strain of anti-Semitism that has left many French Jews deeply unnerved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"407\" data-total-count=\"816\">Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/25\/world\/europe\/french-jews-fear-a-new-strain-of-isis-inspired-anti-semitism.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: MARSEILLE, France \u2014 It was the heavy leather-bound volume of the Torah he was carrying that shielded Benjamin Amsellem from the machete blows. 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