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Twelve Torah scrolls stolen in targeted antisemitic break-in at synagogue near Paris

"It was with shock and anger that I learned this morning that the Jewish community of Levallois had been struck at what is most sacred and precious to it," said Levallois Mayor Agnès Pottier-Dumas.

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The former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls during the Geopolitics Book Prize award ceremony on March 9, 2022, at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris, France

Former French Prime Minister joins CAM to lead Europe's fight against rising antisemitism

US Ambassador to France Charles Kushner stands with two members of Chabbad in his Paris residence.

'Only my best friend knows I’m Jewish’: French Jewish teens tell US ambassador of hidden identity

French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.

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


Canary in a coal mine: French Jews warn of extreme politics amid growing antisemitism - opinion

President Emmanuel Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry.

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a music festival in the courtyard of the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, on Friday. Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry, says the writer.

Macron, French Jews call for action after antisemitic rape of 12-year-old girl

French Education Minister Nicole Belloubet said on social media that the crime against the victim was abominable, and the response to such "barbarism" was "Justice, School, Republic."  

 French police stand guard as a forensics member collects evidence after officers shot dead an armed man earlier who set fire to the city's synagogue in Rouen, France, May 17, 2024.

Jews are part of the history of France, but are they part of its future?

Antisemitism, unassimilated immigrant populations, and challenges to French national identity render the next chapters uncertain for French Jews.

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

President of French Assembly: 'Deputies targeted by antisemitism'

Asked whether she was reassured of the current situation in France regarding antisemitism, she answered flatly “no."

 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.

France seeing rise of 'new Nazism' in Paris, victim of antisemitism attack says

The victim, aged 62, recounted the incident on the French BFMTV. According to him, after he had exited a synagogue in the 20th arrondissement, he sat on the pavement in the street.

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

Paris assailant calls man in kippah 'dirty Jew,' attacks him as he leaves synagogue - report

“Everything is being done to find the author of this unspeakable act,” wrote Gerald Darmanin, the French Interior Minister, on X.

 French police patrol on the Champs Elysees avenue near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, as the French government puts the nation on its highest state of alert after a deadly knife attack in northern France, October 16, 2023.

Madrid museum welcomes ruling it can keep painting looted by Nazis

The Jewish artists was forced to sell the artwork in 1939 for 900 Reichsmarks (360) to obtain a visa and flee Germany, but was never paid.

 A visitor leans to look at Camille Pissarro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897" at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022.

Lyon aliyah fair disrupted by anti-Israel protest

Anti-Israel graffiti appears on the walls of the Aliyah fair in Lyon, France, and leads to anti-Israel protests.


'You're Jewish, we will rape you': Nursery director targeted in Paris attack

“You’re Jewish, you’re a Zionist. We will rape you, cut you up as they do in Gaza."

 A woman walks past a building tagged with Stars of David in Paris, France, October 31, 2023

France's Macron receives award for advocating for local Jewish community

The prize is awarded to personalities who have shown exemplary support for European Jewry, defended their religious rights, and combatted antisemitism.

 Macron receives a Jewish community advocacy award.