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        French Jewish Leader Asks Males to Abandon Skullcap After Attack

   by VOA News

   The leader of the French Jewish community in Marseilles asked men and
   boys Tuesday to refrain from wearing the traditional skullcap, a day
   after a teenager attacked a Jewish teacher.

   Zvi Ammar said his call to abandon the kippah "until better days"
   caused him great pain.

   "As soon as we are identified as Jewish, we can be assaulted and even
   risk death," Ammar told French media. He said he would rather be
   criticized for his decision by fellow Jews than "regretting one day if
   by misfortune something very grave occurs."

   A 15-year-old Turkish Kurd attacked a Jewish teacher with a machete in
   Marseilles on Monday, cutting his shoulder and hand. The suspect told
   police he acted in the name of the Islamic State.

   It was the third such attack on Jews in France in recent months, and it
   came as the country remembered the victims of last year's terror attack
   on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and siege of a kosher supermarket in
   Paris, in which 17 people died.
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