Jews in France

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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.
France commemorates 13th anniversary of Toulouse school massacre

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.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Paris 2024 Olympics - Football - Men's Group D - Israel vs Paraguay - Parc des Princes, Paris, France - July 27, 2024

Antisemitism in France set to become the new norm, with 100 incidents monthly - SPCJ report

Post-October 7, antisemitism is becoming a norm in France, with around 100 incidents monthly, mostly street attacks and harassment.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
People attend a demonstration against antisemitism at the Place de la Bastille after three teenagers aged 12 to 13 were indicted in Courbevoie, accused of rape and antisemitic violence against a 12-year-old girl, in Paris, France, June 20, 2024.

'Jews live here': French anti-antisemitism campaign hits close to home

The video shows the effect of antisemitism on French Jews through the eyes of a non-Jewish family friend.

|ByYUVAL BARNEA

Suspected murderer of French Jewish woman declared fit to stand trial

Kobili Traore is accused of the murder of Parisian Jew Sarah Halimi in 2017, a crime to which he has confessed.

JANUARY 28, 2018BySHOSHANA KRANISH
POLICE PATROL the Trocadero area, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, in Paris

French Jewish group demands action following rash of antisemitic incidents

“In recent days, numerous serious incidents have begun occurring in the Paris region."

JANUARY 21, 2018ByJTA
France's Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux walks next to a tombstone desecrated by vandals with a Nazi swastika and the Slogan "Jews Out", in the Jewish Cemetery of Cronenbourg near Strasbourg

Far-right French mayor bans 'anti-Republican' pork-free school meals

"Religious imperatives have no place in an educational establishment."

JANUARY 9, 2018ByEYTAN HALON
Students eating lunch at school (illustrative)

France remembers Paris terror victims three years after attacks

During a three-day killing spree in January 2015, gunmen killed reporters and illustrators at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, police officers and shoppers at a Jewish supermarket.

JANUARY 7, 2018ByREUTERS
THE STATUE at the Place de la République in Paris is seen featured with a giant cardboard pencil reading ‘I am Charlie’ in 2015 after the attack against the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ magazine

French PM: Antisemitism in France has deep roots and ‘new masks’

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe: “In our country, antisemitism is alive. It is not new, it is ancient. It is not superficial, it is well-rooted and it is alive."

DECEMBER 11, 2017ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe delivers a speech to the Jewish Community for the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, at the Buffault Synagogue in Paris, France, October 2, 2017.

Report: Jewish mother and son assaulted at French supermarket

The alleged perpetrators saw that the victim was Jewish because she was wearing a Star of David pendant.

NOVEMBER 25, 2017ByJTA
Police officers in France

Archaeologists may have found an ancient mikve near Marseille

The town, which is situated 90 miles northwest of Marseille, had a large Jewish population in the 13th century.

NOVEMBER 25, 2017ByJTA
A general view of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux

Two years after France's 9/11, is the Fifth Republic turning into Israel?

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon for France, but the 2015 attacks became a tipping point.

NOVEMBER 22, 2017ByEMILY BOULTER & TAMIR LIBEL
Terror in Paris

French courts punish promoters of antisemitic hate speech

Jewish groups have claimed that France's lack of judicial action against antisemites in the past amounted to a cover-up of hate crimes against Jews.

NOVEMBER 19, 2017ByJTA
French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, also known as Dieudonne (C) performs the "quenelle" gesture

Report: Mother of Toulouse killer received public housing to be near son’s trial

Abdelkadar Merah is accused of helping his younger brother, Mohammed, kill four Jews and three soldiers in 2012.

OCTOBER 14, 2017ByJTA
Zoulikha Aziri, the mother of gunman Islamist militant Mohammed Merah, who killed 7 people in 2012, leaves during the trial of her son Abdelkader Merah, who stands accused of complicity in the series of shootings committed by his brother, at the courthouse in Paris, France, October 2, 2017.