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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 5, 1982
French Jews Playing Active Role Pamphlet Aids
vA iscbtZsosoisf
in Mitterrand Administration
Gary R Miller &
Associates
Photography with
a Personal Touch
By BEN FRANK
PARIS (JTA) — Quickly
and without much fanfare,
the new president of France
entered the offices where
the civil marriage of one of
his most trusted aides was
to take place. It is not
everyone that has the
president attend his or her
wedding ceremony. But
that's what happened to
Jacques Attali, special con-
sultant to President Fran-
cois Mitterrand.
Due to a pressing
schedule, the president
could not attend the
synagogue service, but
many high government offi-
cials did. This was, of
course, their tribute to At-
tali — a strong supporter of
Mitterrand, active in the
Jewish community, a vice
president of the Fonds So-
cial Juif Unifie (similar to
the Council of Jewish Fed-
erations in the United
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which was the first Euro-
pean country to grant Jews
equality, that Jews have
risen to the highest posi-
tions in government and in-
dustry. Leon Blum, Rene
Mayar and Pierre Mendes-
France were all premiers
of France, which today has a
Jewish population of more
than 700000 and is the
fourth largest Jewish com-
munity in the world.
Moreover, there are
more Jewish Cabinet
members in the Mitter-
rand Administration
than in the governments
of recent years; three of
the four Jews in the
Cabinet have long been
very active in the Jewish
community.
But in a country which
has a long tradition of secu-
lar government, it should be
remembered that these men
were picked not because
they were Jewish but be-
cause of their ability, and
their belief in the Socialist
platform.
The background of the
other Jews around
President Mitterrand is fas-
cinating indeed.
- Robert Badinter is a
member of the board of The
Fonds Social Juif Unifie and
also has been active on be-
half of Soviet Jewry. He was
born in 1929, into a family
of East European immig-
rants and has been a lawyer
at the Paris Court of Appe-
als since 1951. Along with
Jean Denis Bredin, he
heads one of the largest law
firms in Paris.
What makes Badinter
so intriguing is that he
has led a public cam-
paign against capital
punishment and his ap-
pointment as Minister of
Justice indicated that the
government intended to
outlaw the death penalty.
This bill recently became
law.
As Minister of Industry,
Pierre Dreyfus will be on
familiar territory. He first
joined the ministry back in
1935 as inspector general of
industry.
Dreyfus is known to be
particularly sensitive to the
situation of North African
Jews. He himself was raised
in a relatively assimilated
French Jewish family. In
fact, it was reported, at the
age of 13 he surprised his
family with a request for a
Palestinian-U.S.
Talks Pushed
WASHINGTON — Dur-
ing his meetings with
President Reagan on Wed-
nesday afternoon and at a
state dinner Wednesday
evening, Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak
asked the U.S. to push for
Palestinian participation in
the autonomy talks.
Mubarak called for direct
contacts between the U.S.
and the Palestinians. He did
not mention the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Bar Mitzva, to which they
agreed.
It was to Jack Lang that
Mitterrand gave the task to
organize the inaugural
ceremonies held at the
Pantheon on May 21.
All his life Lang has led
parallel lives in the world
of politics, theater and
university. First active in
the ranks of the young
radicals who supported
Pierre
President
he
Mendes-France,
joined the Socialists in
1965. It was Lang's organ-
izational genius which
was responsible for set-
ting up the Festival of
Nancy; he was its guiding
force and it became an
important center of
creativity. In 1978, Lang
became an adviser to Mit-
terrand.
The new French adminis-
tration's policy towards Is-
rael has steered pretty
much on the same course as
the previous administra-
tions, although there are
nuances. The new govern-
ment is emotionally closer
to Israel. An example of this
being Mitterrand's
scheduled visit to Israel in
March. He is the first
French president to visit the
Jewish state.
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