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Friday, March 27, 2015

France: Jew prevented from voting because of his kippah


Via La Dépêche:

Avraham Weill, a rabbi from Toulouse, says he was not allowed to vote in this week's local elections because he was wearing a kippah.  The polling station was located at a a school and Weill was requested to remove his kippah in the name of laïcité (French secularism).


Update from reader:

The rabbi was stopped from voting by two far left militants, a woman and her husband.  Other people in the polling station protested and the rabbi was finally able to vote.


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