Anonymous
01/18/2016 12:59
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
I've lived in Europe for a decade, and I have friends here who are Jewish, and have also worked with Jewish colleagues in the other two European countries I lived in before my current post. You will be fine. You should definitely go!
Anonymous
01/18/2016 12:58
Subject: Re:If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Yes, I would go. Not going is giving in to fear.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 12:57
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
No not really Barbara Streisand, Howie Mandel and Steven Spielberg hardly look Arab...nice try
Anonymous
01/18/2016 12:49
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How would anyone know you are Jewish? If someone targeted me because they followed me home from shul, I would be at CDG coming home immediately. But otherwise, I would go.
Some people look obviously Jewish, Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, David Brenner, etc......
When you talk about someone who looks "obviously" Jewish, know that these features are very similar to Arab features. Jews and Arabs look the same.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 12:39
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Anonymous wrote:How would anyone know you are Jewish? If someone targeted me because they followed me home from shul, I would be at CDG coming home immediately. But otherwise, I would go.
Some people look obviously Jewish, Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, David Brenner, etc......
Anonymous
01/18/2016 12:38
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
I am not Jewish but have a really good friend who is and she and her husband look Jewish as does her D who left to go there a few days for a study abroad program and we had this conversation and its a very real issue. She is actually quite concerned and was thinking about having her D come home but her husband thinks she is overreacting as do I. However the antisemitism is startling and concerning.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 11:55
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Anonymous wrote: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?
That's BS in 99% of the areas you'd ever visit in Europe -- much safer than hard-core ghettos here, Jew or not
Anonymous
01/18/2016 11:47
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Anonymous wrote: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?
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.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 11:10
Subject: Re:If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
OP, maybe you could reach out to some Jewish communities in Paris and ask them about the situation there. I am sure the communities there would be happy to share their experiences.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 10:04
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Anonymous wrote:How would anyone know you are Jewish? If someone targeted me because they followed me home from shul, I would be at CDG coming home immediately. But otherwise, I would go.
This was my first thought. Are you Orthodox and dress differently?
Anonymous
01/18/2016 10:04
Subject: Re:If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
I live in Europe, not France, but the UK. I would go in a heartbeat. There is no palpable sentiment on the streets and I'm guessing you'd be a highly paid executive anyway.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 10:03
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
Absolutely not. Sorry OP.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 10:02
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
How would anyone know you are Jewish? If someone targeted me because they followed me home from shul, I would be at CDG coming home immediately. But otherwise, I would go.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 10:02
Subject: Re:If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
I would go.
Anonymous
01/18/2016 09:51
Subject: If you are Jewish, would you move to Europe right now?
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?
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?