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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Jewish. I have a promotion opportunity to move to Paris with my company. The job is in the suburbs. There aren't many Jews at my company and I know nobody in the area.

With the rising antisemitism in Europe, is this a bad and dangerous idea?

Part of me is like "how cool to live abroad and expose my young children to French. My DH would be a stay at home dad for a year". The other part of me really doesn't want to put myself in a situation where we would be singled out due to religion. Our families had a hard enough time surviving WW2...

In the DC area, I  don't think twice about religion or discrimination. I did have a bad experience as a young 20-something living in a different part of the country where there were very few Jews.  A broken window, threats and racial slurs that I swear haven't been in the everyday vocabulary since the early 1950s (this was 15 yrs ago). So I picked up and moved to DC...

All other factors aside, WWYD?[/quote]

Talk to some Jewish friends who have been to France recently.  As far as I have seen Europe is much less religion-conscious than the US.

How "Jewish" are you?  In Europe, generally speaking, religion is much more understated than it is here.  Don't make a point of it and no one else will either.  Can you identify other jews in your company in France?  If so, ask them - and don't be surprised if they don't get your concerns.[/quote]

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