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Arancha Gonzalez on tariff turmoil
AAPA members met in person and on Zoom April 16 with Arancha Gonzalez, the former Spanish foreign minister who is now Dean of Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs. It was a timely session, and a sobering one, given the tariff turmoil that has upended transatlantic and global relations this month. Dean Gonzalez, who has also held senior positions at the United Nations and the…
Reclaiming Their Homes: Antisemitism in Post-War Paris
On February 7, Sarah Gensburger, coauthor of the new book Appartements témoins : La spoliation des locataires juifs à Paris, 1940-1946, talked us through its account of how ordinary Parisians and the French authorities collaborated in the dispossession of Jewish tenants – including after the war, when many Jews returned to Paris and tried to reclaim their homes, only to find they had been…
Dissident Russian journalist Andrei Loshak: "Broken Ties"
The Dissident Club in Paris was a fitting setting for our screening of "Broken Ties," a look at the impact Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine had on Russian families, produced by dissident Russian journalist Andrei Loshak. Andrei told us of his experiences since the invasion during our evening discussion on November 11. Well-known and respected as a journalist/filmmaker in Russia and…
Thierry Marx and the free cooking schools
Thierry Marx, the chef étoilé with a rags-to-riches story who in 2012 founded a network of free cooking schools -- 10 so far -- to boost the disadvantaged into employment and a sense of purpose, met with AAPA…
Ex-AAPA VP Michael Balter tells us about the $10-million defamation suit he is facing for his #MeToo reporting
The AAPA met with ex-VP Michael Balter on March 18 to hear about the $10-million defamation lawsuit he is fighting and the issues surrounding it. Michael was served with the suit last June by archeologist Danielle Kurin, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Victims, or survivors as they prefer to be called, allege she was complicit in her former husband’s sexual harassment…
French anti-Semitism 'first sign of a national crisis', Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur tells AAPA
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur of the Mouvement Libéral Juif de France told AAPA members of her own path to the rabbinate (she was ordained in New York because no French institution will ordain women rabbis), and discussed her…