Monday afternoon, Élysée Palace. Secretary General Alexis Kohler swept the agenda for the coming days in front of the leaders of the majority: in particular, on the programme, he informed them without lingering, on 7 December, the presentation to Emmanuel Macron of the Lord Jakobovits prize for the fight against anti-Semitism. Far from anticipating that, on Thursday evening, two candles would rekindle the eternal doubts and questions about the president's relationship with religion and secularism.
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Two days before the anniversary of December 9 on the 1905 law on the separation of Church and State, the President of the Republic has indeed provoked an ardent controversy by allowing, on the occasion of this ceremony, the Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, to celebrate Hanukkah in the banquet hall of the Élysée.
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