Polls showing rise of France’s Marine Le Pen stir debate among Jews about talking to her
On the second floor of the town hall in Paris\’ third Arrondissement, leaders of France\’s major Jewish institutions gathered to denounce the leader of the far-right National Front party and to assert that she remains unworthy of dialogue with the Jewish community. Last week\’s gathering was precipitated by two developments that the community found alarming, though for very different reasons.