Hundreds of Thousands March in Unity in Paris

A series of terror attacks which claimed 16 lives in Paris, the capitol city of France, last week has brought hundreds of thousands of people out into the streets who marching alongside world leaders in a show of unity and defiance against terror.

The somber march began shortly after 3pm [Paris time], with a vanguard of dark-coated leaders marching arm-in-arm down the broad Boulevard Voltaire.

Lead by French President Francois Hollande who was joined by officials from across Europe and beyond, including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Turkeys Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Security officials in France and across Europe remained on high alert for copycat attacks, even as a French prosecutor said that five people detained in the wake of the terrorist attacks had been released.

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  • Time for us to reflect

    The Rebbe often noted, the quote that”

    “Whatever a Yid sees or hears he must take out a lesson form it in Avodas Hashem”

    Certainly when the entire world is all outraged at the use of Extremism and Intolerance against anyone who doesn’t agree with anyone’s else’s beliefs, it certainly is a call on us Yidden to reflect too.

    Crown Heights and 770 is the pinnacle of the world and everything we do here eventually trickles down and is reflected throughout the world.

    We must ask ourselves:
    Do we in C.H.and in 770, display religious tolerance towards those who disagree with us on our own internal religious differences?

    It doesn’t matter if our religious disputes with each other are of the type of Talmidey Rabbi Akiva, Disputes in the Beis Din or Disputes on Moshiach issues or disputes of matters of control of 770.

    Everyone is entitled to believe or to not believe in whatever they want, but once we introduce religious intolerance, to the point of using FORCE and FORCING others to agree with us, even if our use of force is without “guns”, it trickles down among lower class people to use similar religious intolerance, of a different type of FORCE, even with using Knives and Guns too, inside 770, in France, in Israel and all around the world, too.

    For example:
    If someone wants to say “Zaya”, the Meshichist groups should not take the Anti Meshichist to court, try to use the court system to use it’s force to squash free speech and to use the courts, to try and “force” them to stop their religious freedom, of free expression of speech for them to say “Zaya”, as often as they wish.

    Likewise if someone wants to say “Yechi”, the Anti Meshichist opposition movement, should not be using force to try and squash the free religious expression of free speech, by taking them to court, in and attempt, to try and use the court system to squash free speech of saying “Yechi”.