Behind a veil of tears: Jewish father supports headscarf daughters
by Daniel Ben Simon
Two sisters became captivated by Islam, and their French liberal,
`Jewish-by-chance’ father has found himself having to face up to their
religiosity and subsequent expulsion from school. The incident has
provoked both private and national ferment.
Laurent Levy, a sworn liberal and a total atheist, noticed dramatic
changes in his two daughters, but he did not attribute much importance
to them. One day, about two years ago, the two girls stopped eating
pork. “No problem,” he said. A while later, they informed him that they
intended to fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Levy thought
it the most natural thing in the world that his daughters were adopting.
