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Parisian Jewish family ordered to remove mezuzah from apartment door by building management

The family was told they have 15 days to remove the mezuzah, with the management company saying it had been put up "without any authorization."

Mezuzah at the entrance to the O Laffa kosher restaurant owned by a couple belonging to the Jewish community and vandalized by an anti-Semitic act on the night of September 2 to 3 in Villeurbanne, France on September 24, 2024.
Caroline Yadan in Jerusalem, February 17.

'From the river to the sea' could be punishable under new French law, says MP Yadan - interview

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

Jews were target of majority of antireligious acts in 2025, French ministry reveals

Aliyah from France, which was saw 1,500 to 2,000 people moving to Israel every year, increased in 2025 to 3,300.

A fractured bond: France, Israel, and French Jews at a defining moment - analysis


French police arrest 16 teachers at Orthodox school for abusing students

At least 42 underage students from the yeshiva in a Paris suburb were placed at an undisclosed child welfare facility.

 The entrance to the Yeshivat Beth Yossef in Bussières, France.

French lawmaker says Éric Zemmour part of France's antisemitism problem

Zemmour has not announced a political run but is still polling among President Emmanuel Macron’s most serious challengers in this spring's presidential elections.

 Éric Zemmour in the salon du livre 2012.

France chief rabbi calls Jewish presidential candidate an ‘antisemite’

Zemmour, who has called Muslim immigrants “invaders” and in 2016 said that most drug dealers are Arab or African, is now running second and ahead of Marine Le Pen.

France's Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia

Bible scrolls from around the world - in pictures

A photo essay captures the stories of six Torah scrolls from around the world - Yemen, Siberia, France, Germany - which all ended up in Israel.

 THE WIESLOCH Torah scroll.

On This Day: French Jews given full rights under law

On September 27, 1791, the Loi relative aux Juifs was passed, granting Jews full rights in France. The move was ratified on November 13. 1791.

View of Paris, France and the Eiffel Tower

On This Day: The final expulsion of Jews from France

On September 17, 1394, King Charles VI of France ordered that all Jewish people be expelled from the kingdom. 

 Medieval French castle

Jewish doctors allegedly targeted by anti-vaccine antisemites in France

A letter sent to the French Interior Minister from the Simon Wiesenthal Center argued that anti-vaccination rhetoric is closely linked to antisemitism.

Aerial view of Paris, France and the Eiffel Tower

Holocaust survivor's resistance brought him to Israel

Eliezer Lev Tzion's story starts in Berlin, where his journalist father was arrested in 1933, and continues to Neve Ilan, with wars, resistance and rehabilitation in between.

Grenoble, 1943. Dressed in his ‘compagnon de France’ uniform, Eliezer Lewinsohn is standing with a French woman Resistance fighter, a forbidden photograph courtesy

160 French olim arrive in Israel on special flight

Aliyah from France is up 137% in 2021 after the pandemic drastically reduced the number of new immigrants to Israel last year.

New children olim from France departing the airplane in Israel

French Jews on why they protest over Sarah Halimi, in their own words

Following the protests, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency spoke to multiple French Jews, asking them in interviews to share their thoughts and impressions from the situation on the ground.

Sarah Halimi was brutally murdered in her Paris home by Kobili Traore, who was not prosecuted because lawyers attributed his actions to a “massive psychotic episode” caused by smoking marijuana.