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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.
Former French Prime Minister joins CAM to lead Europe's fight against rising antisemitism
'Only my best friend knows I’m Jewish’: French Jewish teens tell US ambassador of hidden identity
Are French courts unwilling to call out antisemitism, recognize Jew-hatred? - analysis
French Jews 'on the front line' of battling antisemitism - CRIF head
The French Jewish community has been facing a lot of antisemitism lately and they are calling on authorities to dig into all possible motivations of the attacks.
Authorities claim that French Jew wasn't killed for antisemitic reasons
Despite the government's claim that the attack was not antisemitic, social media posts have displayed the alleged assassin burning the flag of Israel.
How French author Anne Berest confronted her family’s Holocaust story
The success of what Berest calls her anxiety-filled “identity research” is an “encouraging sign of awareness by society of the Holocaust amid troubling times,” she told JTA.
Amid existential angst, Parisian Jews bet on their community’s future with giant community center
The new building, which opened late in 2019 but due to the COVID-19 pandemic began operating fully only in recent months, is partly a response to rising challenges
Seventeenth Festival of Jewish Cultures concludes with concert by Dudu Tassa
The event, coordinated with the Department of Culture of the Israeli Embassy in Paris, took place at the Le Trianon Theatre
France has 500,000 Jews but only 5 women rabbis. A growing movement is pushing to change that.
In France, there are only five female rabbis in a country with over half a million Jews.
What are the Jewish roots of France’s newest prime minister?
Elisabeth Borne is the second woman to hold the position; Her family fled the Nazis in Poland in 1939
Éric Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial charge: 'French Nazi collaborator saved Jews'
Several left-leaning anti-racism groups had filed complaints against Zemmour over comments saying a French collaborator with the Nazis had saved most French Jews.
If Marine Le Pen wins in France, French Jews mull aliyah to Israel
Officials in Israel’s national institutions do not see any potential rise in interest in aliyah to Israel as a result of the possible political change.
French elections: Why French Jewish leaders fear how French olim vote - analysis
Should they support the first Jewish candidate for president? Or rather vote for the moderate Emmanuel Macron?
