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.
'If Israel falls, we fall': Fate of West tied to Israel, former French PM tells 'Post' - interview
Algerian nanny imprisoned for poisoning French Jewish family
EJC president warns of dangerous influence of social media in youth radicalization
Israel and France to advance international coalition to battle antisemitism
Representatives of government ministries of both countries, civil society and the French Jewish community officials convened in Paris to discuss undergoing efforts to reduce antisemitism in France.
Appeal starts in Paris court over Charlie Hebdo attack
The two men - Ali Riza Polat and Amar Ramdani - are among 14 convicted in December 2020 as accomplices of the attackers, who were themselves killed by police soon after the killings.
French Jews 'on the front line' of battling antisemitism - CRIF head
The French Jewish community has been facing a lot of antisemitism lately and they are calling on authorities to dig into all possible motivations of the attacks.
Authorities claim that French Jew wasn't killed for antisemitic reasons
Despite the government's claim that the attack was not antisemitic, social media posts have displayed the alleged assassin burning the flag of Israel.
How French author Anne Berest confronted her family’s Holocaust story
The success of what Berest calls her anxiety-filled “identity research” is an “encouraging sign of awareness by society of the Holocaust amid troubling times,” she told JTA.
Amid existential angst, Parisian Jews bet on their community’s future with giant community center
The new building, which opened late in 2019 but due to the COVID-19 pandemic began operating fully only in recent months, is partly a response to rising challenges
Seventeenth Festival of Jewish Cultures concludes with concert by Dudu Tassa
The event, coordinated with the Department of Culture of the Israeli Embassy in Paris, took place at the Le Trianon Theatre
France has 500,000 Jews but only 5 women rabbis. A growing movement is pushing to change that.
In France, there are only five female rabbis in a country with over half a million Jews.
What are the Jewish roots of France’s newest prime minister?
Elisabeth Borne is the second woman to hold the position; Her family fled the Nazis in Poland in 1939
Éric Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial charge: 'French Nazi collaborator saved Jews'
Several left-leaning anti-racism groups had filed complaints against Zemmour over comments saying a French collaborator with the Nazis had saved most French Jews.
