They had the misfortune of seeing them, swastika-bearing banners flying above the streets of their towns. They couldn’t help but hear them, youngsters their age dressed in Hitler Youth attire and singing Nazi Party anthems. “I hate the songs,” Edith Leuchter says in a video in which she and her
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday welcomed news that three young French nationals were among the hostages released by Hamas on Monday, saying they were in good health. "We have indirect news and that news is good. It is a great, great relief," Colonna told RTL radio, when asked about the health of Eitan, 12, Erez, 12, and Sahar 16. "Three French children were finally freed, now we must work relentlessly for the release of all the other hostages," she said, adding that five French nationals were still missing or believed to be held hostage.
When is a timeless children’s tale not quite right for children’s theater? When it is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved and ever-so-slightly surreal 1942 novella, “The Little Prince.” Published following France’s liberation during World War II, the French aristocrat turned military aviator’s story was always something of an adult-oriented, nebulous dreamscape, one in which a tousled-haired young prince travels through space, lands on various planets (including Earth) and touches quietly on topi