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Jacques Attali was born on 1 November 1943 in Algiers (Algeria), with his twin brother Bernard Attali, in a Jewish family. His father, Simon Attali, is a self-educated person who achieved success in perfumery ("Bib et Bab" shop) in Algiers. He married Fernande Abécassis on 27 January 1943.
Jewish and Algerian pied noir by origin, a polymath enarch by accom- plishment, Jacques Attali during 1981-1991 was a sort of intellectual shadow of the Elected King of France.
Jacques Attali is one of the most influential economic theorists in the French Socialist Party today and a close personal adviser to President Mitterand. He is also a distinguished scholar, the author of a dozen books whose subjects range from political economy to euthanasia and music.
Jul 12, 2016 · A recent exhibit at the Louvre in Paris inspired by Jacques Attali conveys, graphically, a disturbing picture of the state of our world. Underlying his vision and his message is a conviction that the path, indeed the very survival, of our civilizations is fundamentally tied to their spiritual roots.
Jacques Attali is now President of A&A, an international strategy consulting firm, based in Paris, and President of the Positive Planet Foundation, which aims to support the most vulnerable by promoting the positive economy. He is also a columnist for the newspaper Les Echos.
Apr 11, 2014 · The ideological battle, between the pursuit of an individualistic inner being, initiated in the 19th century, and the rational altruistic model currently beginning to rise, is raging. It can be felt in NGOs, social responsibility, civic service and the general interest.
The state of Jewish-Christian relations varies from group to group, but some general trends do emerge from examining the ways that Jews and Christians interact today: – The Holocaust profoundly affected the ways that Christians from across the theological spectrum think about and interact with Jews.
