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jan 1, 1806 - Napoleon's Sanhedrin

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Napoleon convened an assembly of 71 rabbis and lay leaders in Paris — deliberately echoing the ancient Sanhedrin — to answer whether Jews could be full French citizens. Their rulings affirmed civil law over communal autonomy and framed Judaism as a religion rather than a nation, setting the template for emancipation across Western Europe.

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jan 1, 1806
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~ 220 years ago