Nice, France

Cannes police arrests man threatening to blow up synagogue 'the size of an asteroid'

A man in Cannes was arrested after livestreaming threats to blow up a local synagogue, prompting a rapid police response and condemnation from city officials.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Cannes Synagogue.
GUY SASSON celebrates on the court with his trophy.

First Israeli to win Grand Slam wheelchair title celebrates victory and hostages return

Israeli tennis player Guy Sasson won the French Open Quad Wheelchair finals, his first Grand Slam singles title, amid dramatic ups and downs, learning of significant news afterward.

|ByHOWARD BLAS
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian leaves after a news conference with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar (not pictured), in Cairo, Egypt November 8, 2020.

Cairo: French minister affirms respect for Islam in dispute over cartoons

"We have a first principle which is the highest respect for Islam," Le Drian told reporters. "I also want to say that Muslims are fully part of society in France."

|ByREUTERS
Father Franklin Parmentier greets people ahead of a mass on Sunday at Notre Dame Basilica to pay tribute to the victims of last Thursday’s deadly knife attack in Nice, France.

There is no right to not be offended

There is no human right, nor legal right in France, to not be offended. What is a human right, and a legal right, is freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

|ByEMILY SCHRADER

Three dead as woman beheaded in knife attack in Nice, France

The man suspected of carrying out a fatal knife attack kept shouting "Allahu Akbar."

OCTOBER 29, 2020ByREUTERS, SARAH CHEMLA
Reported knife attack in French city of Nice.

Nice’s once-vibrant Jewish community faces uncertain future

“It caused many people to leave,” Parienti said, “especially after the 2016 attack.”

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
A police officer stands guard near a makeshift memorial at the Consulate General of France in Manhattan following the Nice terror attack in New York, U.S., July 15, 2016