Rue des Rosiers
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Rue des Rosiers
Going to Paris this month and thinking I'll skip my requisite stop for falafel in the traditional Jewish quarter due to security concerns. Just wondering if anyone has been there within the past weeks, if security is tightened there, and/or if people seem to be avoiding it. Sad that this needs asking.
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Rue des Rosiers is doing the same amount of business as it always has. Only a few tourists seem to have cancelled their trips, and the felafel places are all busy. Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing to be concerned about. Soldiers are patrolling all of the Marais, not just what remains of the two-block long "Jewish quarter".
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The only time I've seen disappointed people on rue des Rosiers is when they try to buy felafels on the Sabbath, when many places are closed.
On the other hand, people who try felafels for the first time are often more disappointed than the people who couldn't buy them in the first place.
On the other hand, people who try felafels for the first time are often more disappointed than the people who couldn't buy them in the first place.
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Kerouac, the theater was most likely chosen because it had been Jewish-owned until just recently and because they have had Israeli bands play there. They have received threats in the past for this. And the cafe that was attacked was owned by Jews. So your assertion that the Jewish community was not targeted is incorrect.
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I don't have to. I know these places. With six attack sites, you only mention one as being "Jewish owned" and one as "formerly Jewish-owned". That hardly adds up to a concerted anti-Jewish attack, especially since all of these places were open and full. "Real" Jewish places would have been closed for the Sabbath.