mFrench Jewish groups, including Western Europe’s largest charity for Jews, signed a declaration of principles for coordinated efforts to provide relief for Syrian refugees.




The declaration, initiated by French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia and published Thursday, states each of the six co-signatory groups will “act to accompany the refugees, each according to its competences and abilities and with its traditional partners,” but “especially in administrative and medical matters.”




Many are refugees from the civil war in Syria. Others come from failed or impoverished countries in the Middle East and Africa.




The signatories to Korsia’s declaration — including the Fonds Social Juif Unifie, which has an annual budget of roughly $10 million and the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF — wrote that their initiative was “guided by the notion of TIKKUN OLAM – repairing the world – in Jewish philosophy and out of awareness of a MORAL STRUGGLE occurring in a society too characterized, at times, by individualism.”




CRIF [Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France], the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, did not sign Korsia’s declaration but has none the less given it its blessing, according to Korsia’s office.

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/320814/french-jews-plan-coordinated-push-to-help-syrian-refugees/#ixzz3ufYx6CcD




NOTE: Fonds Social Juif Unifie (FSJU), the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) and the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF) all support the State of Israel – a State which:




• spent $360m on a new electric fence to block African migrants from entering the country

• arrests, imprisons then deports African asylum seekers

• administered the birth control drug Depo Provera to Ethiopian Jews without their knowledge or consent

• banned Ethiopian Jews from donating blood

• has separate roads for Jews and Palestinians

• has separate buses for Palestinians

* is introducing DNA tests for would-be immigrants in order to determine who is a Jew

• prohibits same-sex marriage

• prohibits marriage between Jews and non-Jews




Fonds Social Juif Unifie (FSJU)




By the presence of our delegation, our institution is represented with the Israeli associations, partners, governments, politicians, the Francophone Lobby of the Knesset, the media.

http://www.fsju.org/missions-israel/