French jews

Are French courts unwilling to call out antisemitism, recognize Jew-hatred? - analysis

In December 2025, an Algerian nanny was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for poisoning a French Jewish family, but the court ruled this was not an act of antisemitism.

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.
This photograph shows a French flag fluttering with the La Defense business district in the background skyline, in Paris, on December 5, 2025.

Jewish boy tripped, punched, held at knifepoint on way to Paris synagogue

 People block the entrance to Ashdod port during a protest against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, southern Israel, February 1, 2024.

French judges issue legal summons for French-Israel activists accused of 'genocide' - interview

A French National Police officer, wearing a body-worn camera, stands in Paris, France, December 10, 2025.

'Deeply alarming': Jewish primary school in Paris vandalized, CCTV damaged


Gad Elmaleh’s movie about religion is kind of parve -review

Elmaleh, a Moroccan-born Jew, is one of France’s most popular comedians and was voted the funniest person in France.

 SCENES FROM Gad Elmaleh’s ‘Stay With Us.’

Israel's Bezalel Smotrich to visit France on the way back from the US

Smotrich will visit France in order to participate in a memorial service for Jacques Kupfer, a vocal and influential Likud activist who passed away at the age of 74.

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is seen speaking ahead of his Religious Zionist Party faction meeting at the Israeli Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2023.

Gov't to create new positions in Religious Services Ministry - report

According to a draft of the coalition agreements, the government will vote on a decision for the allocation of two new positions in the Religious Affairs Ministry. 

 SHAS PARTY head Arye Deri speaks to supporters as projected results from the Knesset election are announced, in Jerusalem, on November 1.

French-born Chabad rabbi ‘stuck’ in Israel by IDF for not enlisting

He was detained when he asked to leave the country at the end of a vacation in August with his wife and daughter. The case was publicized by Kol Barama radio journalist Mendi Rizel.

A young Haredi man outside the IDF enlistment office in Jerusalem

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.

 A demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'no to antisemitism', during a protest against antisemitism and to commemorate the 2012 Toulouse attack against a Jewish school that left three children and an adult dead, at the Place de la Republique square in Paris, France, March 13, 2022.

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.  

French flag in France

Parisian worlds collide in 'Haute Couture' - review

"Haute Couture" opens in theaters all over the country on August 25.

 SYLVIE OHAYON’S ‘Haute Couture.’

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.

Anne Berest attends the Canneseries Festival in Cannes, France, April 4, 2022.

France’s first woman parliament speaker is a Jewish mother of 5

Yaël Braun-Pivet's election comes on the heels of Élisabeth Borne becoming the second woman prime minister of France.

 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.

Meyer Habib re-elected to represent French-Israelis in Paris

Habib, a dual French-Israeli citizen, was first elected to the National Assembly, the lower house of the French legislature, in 2013.

Meyer Habib