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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]
It will depend on how observant your family is. The problems in France come from the French wanting French culture as the only culture. So if you stick out as being Jewish, Muslim, not eating pork, not French, etc and are a permanent residents, yes problems. If you are a typical Americn Jew, they will just think you are an American work overseas. [/quote]

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