法国犹太人争论戴无檐便帽
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月
AS IT IS 2016-01-16 French Jews Debate Wearing Skullcaps 法国犹太人争论戴无檐便帽
A knife attack in France that injured a Jew has started a debate about wearing head coverings that show a person is Jewish 1.
“Even if we don’t wear one, we’ll always be attacked,” Israel Nessim told VOA near a synagogue -- a Jewish religious center -- in Paris.
“We’ll always be recognized as Jews,” he said.
Jewish men who are religious wear a head covering called a kippah, yarmulke or skullcap.
On Monday, a school teacher in Marseille who was wearing a kippah was attacked. The attacker was a Kurdish teenager who claimed to support the Islamic State terrorist 2 group.
Zvi Ammar, a leader in the Jewish community in Marseille, said Jewish men and boys should not wear the kippah “until better days.”
Other French-Jewish leaders urge boys and men to continue wearing a kippah. They include the country’s top Jewish religious leader and the head of a national Jewish group.
Philippe Zribi is a Jewish butcher in Paris. He does not wear a kippah. But he says “I believe people should be able to wear what they want. We need to terrorize the terrorists 3, not be terrorized by the terrorists.”
Jews in other countries are debating whether to stop wearing skullcaps. Last year, the leader of a Jewish organization in Germany said Jewish men should stop wearing the kippah in areas where many Muslims live.
About 500,000 Jews live in France. A study by the group Human Rights First reported a sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks in 2014. And it said more than 7,200 French Jews had moved to Israel that year.
Words in This Story
kippah; yarmulke – n. a small, round head covering that is worn by some religious Jewish men
skullcap – n. a small, round cap that sits on top of the head and that is worn by religious Jewish men and Catholic 4 clergymen
butcher – n. someone who cuts and sells meat in a shop, or kills animals and prepares their meat to be eaten
anti-Semitic – adj. feeling or showing hatred of Jewish people
- The coin bears a Jewish symbol.硬币上有犹太标记。
- They were two Jewish kids;I was friendly with both of them.他们是两个犹太小孩；我同他们都很要好。
- Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪，我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
- The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。
- The terrorists have halted their bloody campaign of violence. 恐怖分子已经停止了他们凶残的暴力活动。
- They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands. 他们最后被迫屈从恐怖分子的要求。