Le Consistoire et Mai 68

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The Consistory and May 68, by Claude NatafIn May of 1968, the Consistory and its synagogue, located on rue de la Victoire in Paris, were occupied by a small group of students. This challenge to the Jewish establishment came at a time when the community was undergoing social transformation with the arrival of Jews from North Africa, as well as the Six Day War, which led to a new kind of relationship between French Jews and Israel. This protest, which originated outside of organized Jewish youth movements, took place without violence and quickly oriented itself towards debates with rabbis and consistorial leaders. The protest had long term effects : the abolition of organs and mixed choirs in consistorial synagogues, term-limits for the chief rabbi of France, the end of the “system of notables’” with the 1988 elections to the Paris consistory, the development of Hebrew teaching and Jewish schools, changes in rabbinical training, etc.

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