Paris, France -French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first grandson, Solal, was circumcised according to Jewish tradition.
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Solal, the son of Jean Sarkozy and Jessica Sebaoun, was born January 13 in the western Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
“It happened like all circumcisions, with a rabbi and a mohel,” Jean Balkany, the president’s friend, who was present at the brit for Solal, told Jewish radio Radio J.
President Sarkozy did not attend the brit, apparently because of work-related obligations, but Balkany said the president’s entire family was present, including his parents and brother.
Jessica Sebaoun is “a very observant Sephardic” Jew and the French president “sees no problem with that,” said Balkany, a member of the French parliament and mayor of Levallois-Perret, a town northwest of Paris.
Balkany, who is Jew (his father was deported to Auschwitz), said that when he met Sarkozy more than 20 years ago, one of their first conversations was about their shared “Jewish origins.”
Sarkozy’s first grandchild was named Solal, after the hero of a novel by Swiss writer Albert Cohen. The first name Solal comes from the Hebrew ‘Solel’ which means “to carve a path,” showing the way for others and leading by example.
Jean Sarkozy is a law student and regional councilor west of Paris. He married former high-school classmate Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, an heiress of a Jewish family that founded the electronics retailer group Darty. The Darty family founded what became an eponymous nationwide chain of big-box home appliance stores, now owned by Britain’s KESA Electricals group.
The French president, who turned 55 last month, has two sons from his first marriage – Jean and Pierre – and a third, 12-year-old Louis, from his second.
Nicolas Sarkozy has Jewish roots as his mother Andrée was born to the Mallah family, one of the oldest Jewish families of Salonika in northern Greece.
Mazal Tov! Lots of Yiddishe nachas!
A “bris” is performed on Jewish boys, not boys of Jewish roots. His grandchild had something else, not a “bris.”
Nebbach, the Sephardic girl married out when there’s no lack of available successful and handsome Sephardic men. What a disaster!
Sarkozy is a Jew??? Did everyone already know this and I missed something?
Now it makes sense that there is so much antisemitism in France.
The yichus is way to complicated
‘Jessica Sebaoun is “a very observant Sephardic” Jew ‘
im confused… How can a VERY OBSERVANT SEPHARDIC JEW marry a gentile? That doesnt sound very OBSERVANT to me…
If President Sarkozy’s mother was born to one of the oldest Jewish families, doesn’t that make him Jewish?
This question begs to be answered, if the young lady is a “a very observant Sephardic” Jew, why would she marry a goy? There is no mention of conversion nor does fact Presidents Sarkozy’s Mother was possibly Jewish, obviously his son’s Mother was not Jewish and that makes him non Jewish, so again the question remains why would a “a very observant Sephardic” Jew marry a goy?
She’s “very observant” but married a non-Jew. Lovely.
As usual the information is all messed up. Sarkozy’s mother had a Jewish father from Salonika, that’s all. The baby is a Jew, but to call the mother “very observant” when she intermarried????
Regardless of all the controversy, may the boy grow up to Torah, Chuppah and Maasim Tovim Amen !!! Along with all the boys in this matzav — Amen !!!
She is probably just traditional but she is indeed Jewish and therefore her baby can have a Brit because he is Jewish!And yes a kosher one.The husband did not convert and Sarkozy’s roots are on the father’s side I believe.
“Me Yodaas Im Laes Kazos Higat Lamalchus”
Did they serve French toast at the Bris?
The kid is jewish aint nothing wrong with that if you have a problem take it up with the lord
Whatever the father of the baby is, the child is Jewish and needs a kosher bris. BH he got one. Even if a family is not observant, Hashem loves each and every mitzvah they manage to do.
May this child grow up to be a nachas to klal yisrael. Every jewish child is precious, and here he will be brought up to know he is Jewish, we can only hope for the best, at least it is starting off on the right foot.
Mazal Tov! May he grow to Torah, Chuppah and Maasim Tovim!
At least this Jewish baby has already done one mitva, having a bris milah. Hopefully when he grows up, he will return to his roots.
Before they go and shecht….. I mean circumcise the grandson, let’s see the father and the grandfather(the president) step up to the plate and have circumcision……
Which is it – Is sarkozy jewish or not
The child is Jewish and might be a great leader of Am Yisroel one day. What do we know?
Does it matter whether she is observent or not? She is Jewish so so is her son and she made sure he had a bris milah k’halacha. Who are we to judge?
MAzal tov. They should have much nachas. And it will drive the Moselms crazy,
the kid is jewish his mother is jewish and sarkosy is jewish so the kid is jewish from both sides. the only person not jewish here is sarkosy’s dad.
Of the presidents four grandparents, only his mother’s father (Aaron Mallah born in Salonika and emigrated to France) was Jewish. His mother’s mother was a French Catholic, while his father parents came from minor Hungarian aristocracy..His father came to France to escape Hungary’s communists.
What was wrong with the baby that he didnt have the bris at 8 days???
For all your wailing, the baby is Jewish because the mother is Jewish. Is that too hard for you people to comprehend?
Mazaltov – Mabrouk – Felicitations – Auguri Well done hope child & mother are doing well – Cut out the over judaic remarks -it stinks of Hypocrisy – M. Le president aurait du faire un petit effort pour assister a cette fonction qui est vraiment une des plus importantes pour nous les JUIFS Sepharadic – enfin a nouveau MAZALTOV