France Jews

Trial begins against French murderer who threw elderly Jewish neighbor 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


Smotrich to meet senior Orthodox Jewish officials in US, France

Smotrich will be meeting with rabbis and teachers at Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst as well as the Zionist Organization of America.

 Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich seen after coalition talks with Shas chairman MK Arie Deri and  Likud Head MK Benjamin Netanyahu outside a hotel in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022.

Aliyah minister: Decreased US, France immigration urges us to invest

Ofir Sofer is “expected to allocate budgets for programs intended to integrate new immigrants into the employment market.”

 ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Ofir Sofer: There is an assumption that olim from financially established countries don’t need any support or assistance. That isn’t true.

French PM shares story of Holocaust-survivor father’s suicide when she was a child

The prime minister’s father, Joseph Bornstein (who later became “Borne”) suffered from trauma and severe depression.

 Élisabeth Borne, the Jewish woman who became prime minister of France.

The hidden aliyah crisis

For everyone who cares about this country and recognizes how vital immigration is to its future, we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work, and do our part to tackle the aliyah crisis.

 NEW ‘OLIM’ from North America arrive on an ‘aliyah flight’ arranged by Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Israel wants more Western immigrants - aliyah minister

IMMIGRATION AFFAIRS: Israeli Aliyah Minister Ofir Sofer plans to put an emphasis on immigrants from the US and France.

 ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Ofir Sofer: There is an assumption that olim from financially established countries don’t need any support or assistance. That isn’t true.

Yael German resigns as ambassador to France in protest of new gov't

German was appointed to the role by former prime minister Yair Lapid and previously served as a member of the Yesh Atid Party.

 Israel's ambassador to France Yael German attends a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the wartime Vel d'Hiv round-ups of Jews, in Paris, on July 17, 2022.

Famous Nazi-fighting duo speak about a documentary about their lives

The Klarsfelds, have been making headlines for decades and now have a documentary about their lives being shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.

 BEATE AND Serge Klarsfeld.

In viral clip, French TV host asks Jewish guest why he wears a kippah in public

Though brief, the exchange illustrated the starkly different perspectives on religious expression in France, the United States and elsewhere in the western world.

A man wearing a yarmulke looks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

Infamous antisemitic Dreyfus Affair documents for sale

Many pieces of history from the Rennes trial will be up for auction, including courtroom sketches of Dreyfus' wife Lucie, Captain Alfred Dreyfus himself and French officer Georges-Marie Picquart.

Alfred Dreyfus

Man with the mic: The French Jewish DJ who moved to Israel

Now that Francky Perez has arrived to stay, he plans to continue working as a DJ and MC for private events in the American and French communities here.

 Francky Perez From Los Angeles to Ra’anana, September 2021