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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 Muslim teens sentenced to 7, 9 years in prison for gang raping Jewish girl

Two French Muslim teenagers who raped a 12-year-old Jewish girl in 2024 have been sentenced to seven and nine years in prison.

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

Jewish schools around the world face historic opportunity amid enrollment wave - opinion

The power of the Jewish education system is being revealed. Jewish schools, where hundreds of thousands of Jewish children around the world currently study, have become an anchor.

 View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teacher's strike, on May 6, 2025

Elderly Jewish man beaten in France while feeding stray cats - report

The Jewish man was feeding cats while wearing his yarmulke and tzitzit when he was reportedly accosted by a drunk man in his 40s.

 People visit a memorial dedicated to the children of the Paris Vel D'Hiv round-up, on January 27, 2011 in Orleans, central France, after its unveiling as part of a worldwide souvenir day.

French ministers decry Nanterre graffiti calling for Jewish union 'out of our universities'

The union called the graffiti a crude form of antisemitism and said it would continue to represent Jewish students against anti-Jewish hatred.

 Paris 2024 Olympics - Opening Ceremony - Paris, France - July 26, 2024. Athletes of Israel look on as the Eiffel Tower is seen from aboard a boat in the floating parade on the river Seine during the opening ceremony.

Bardella: National Rally best shield for French Jews

“Anti-Zionism is nothing more than an alibi for antisemitism,” said Bardella.

 Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party, speaks during a political rally in Etrepagny, France, December 15, 2024.

Man who viciously attacked Orleans rabbi arrested, victim tells 'Post'

The attacker was a minor, according to a social media statement by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.

 A member of the Jewish community prays at a synagogue in Orleans, central France, on March 23, 2025, the day after an attack to the rabbi of Orleans, for which a minor has been arrested

In broad daylight: French rabbi assaulted, bitten in front of son on way back from synagogue

Rabbi Arié Engelberg was on his way back from synagogue when he was reportedly kicked, punched, and bitten on the shoulder.

 Rabbi Arié Engelberg.

France commemorates 13th anniversary of Toulouse Jewish school massacre

Arfi and CRIF Toulouse-Occitanie Président Franck Touboul visited the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school and met with the school principal Yaacov Monsonégo, whose daughter was murdered in the attack.

 France commemorates 13th anniversary of Toulouse school massacre

'A smoking gun': Shocking investigation reveals systemic antisemitism at France's 'Le Monde'

Testimonies from within the newsroom reveal that the French Jewish community was explicitly referred to as a “hostile community” during editorial meetings.

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

Henri Borlant, sole child survivor of 6,000 deported to Auschwitz, dies at 98

The Shoah Memorial in Paris saluted Borlant as a "figure of the memory of the Shoah in France" before his passing.

 Survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp Henri Borlant, poses in Paris on January 15, 2015 before the presentation of the book "Traces de L'enfer" or Traces of Hell, released to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi run concentration camps across Europe.