מחווה יהודית מוסלמית בצרפת
מנהיג יהודי (פייר לוי) בשטראסבורג יניח את אבן הפינה למסגד הגדול של העיר.
Jewish-Muslim gesture in France
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A Jewish leader in Strasbourg is to lay the foundation stone for the city’s grand mosque.
Driss Avachour, president of the Strasbourg Grand Mosque Association, asked Pierre Levy, the Alsace region head of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jews, to lay the stone at a ceremony on Friday, Levy told JTA.
In a letter to Levy, Avachour said that “the organization of Islam in France, and particularly in Alsace, has created a climate of reciprocal trust and allowed Islam to take its place at the side of the other religions.”
Unlike other regions in France, Alsace supports and funds religious institutions under the Concordat formula enacted when the region was under German control between 1870 and 1918. Until recently, only Catholic, Protestant and Jewish religions had official recognition and received regional funds for building projects.