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Trial begins against 55 year old murderer who threw 89 year old Jewish neighbour off Lyon balcony

While the defendant, Rachid Kheniche, denies antisemitic motivation, he has so far been charged with aggravated murder because of the victim's religion.

A police officer wearing a bulletproof vest with a plate carrier marked POLICE stands in Rillieux la Pape in Lyon in France on November 10 2025.
France's Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls leaves after a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on September 3, 2025.

'If Israel falls, we fall': Fate of West tied to Israel, former French PM tells 'Post' - interview

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.

Algerian nanny imprisoned for poisoning French Jewish family

EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor at the Paris Mayors Summit on Antisemitism

EJC president warns of dangerous influence of social media in youth radicalization


French Jewish community heads request meeting with National Rally's Le Pen

The Jewish leaders represented small communities and suburbs and did not come from any of the country's established Jewish groups or institutions.

 Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and member of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group during a debate about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Assembly in Paris, October 23, 2023.

This far-left French politician said the Oct. 7 massacre was 'legitimate'

Rima Hassan's comments on the October 7 massacre placed her and La France Insoumise in a precarious position.

 Rima Hassan, the then candidate for the European elections on the list of La France Insoumise (LFI), attends a pro-Palestinian protest in central Paris, France, May 29, 2024.

Canary in a coal mine: French Jews warn of extreme politics amid growing antisemitism - opinion

President Emmanuel Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry.

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a music festival in the courtyard of the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, on Friday. Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry, says the writer.

Macron, French Jews call for action after antisemitic rape of 12-year-old girl

French Education Minister Nicole Belloubet said on social media that the crime against the victim was abominable, and the response to such "barbarism" was "Justice, School, Republic."  

 French police stand guard as a forensics member collects evidence after officers shot dead an armed man earlier who set fire to the city's synagogue in Rouen, France, May 17, 2024.

Jews are part of the history of France, but are they part of its future?

Antisemitism, unassimilated immigrant populations, and challenges to French national identity render the next chapters uncertain for French Jews.

 ‘All the security is not a normal life,’ Rabbi Moshe Sebbag told The Jerusalem Post as French Jews face an uncertain future.

President of French Assembly: 'Deputies targeted by antisemitism'

Asked whether she was reassured of the current situation in France regarding antisemitism, she answered flatly “no."

 Yaël Braun-Pivet, newly-elected President of the National Assembly, reacts as she delivers a speech during the opening session of the National Assembly in Paris, France, June 28, 2022.

France seeing rise of 'new Nazism' in Paris, victim of antisemitism attack says

The victim, aged 62, recounted the incident on the French BFMTV. According to him, after he had exited a synagogue in the 20th arrondissement, he sat on the pavement in the street.

 French police officers stand guard in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France on November 14, 2015. Photo by Laurence Geai/Flash90

Paris assailant calls man in kippah 'dirty Jew,' attacks him as he leaves synagogue - report

“Everything is being done to find the author of this unspeakable act,” wrote Gerald Darmanin, the French Interior Minister, on X.

 French police patrol on the Champs Elysees avenue near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, as the French government puts the nation on its highest state of alert after a deadly knife attack in northern France, October 16, 2023.

Madrid museum welcomes ruling it can keep painting looted by Nazis

The Jewish artists was forced to sell the artwork in 1939 for 900 Reichsmarks (360) to obtain a visa and flee Germany, but was never paid.

 A visitor leans to look at Camille Pissarro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897" at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022.

Lyon aliyah fair disrupted by anti-Israel protest

Anti-Israel graffiti appears on the walls of the Aliyah fair in Lyon, France, and leads to anti-Israel protests.