France Jews

America provided safe refuge to some who now seek to dismantle it from within – opinion

US Rep. Ilhan Omar and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani are just two examples in a long line of turncoats – those who strive to undermine the very values that protect them.

A shaft of light illuminates the Star of David atop the Park East Synagogue in New York City. American Jewry knows what this country that gave it refuge stands for: Democracy, religious liberty, and freedom, the writer maintains.
President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech after he and the Jewish people in Europe received the International Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis) 2024, in Aachen, Germany, May 9, 2024.

When the republic loses the street, its Jews lose first

Influencer and political commentator Hasan Piker is introduced during a campaign rally in Wisconsin in August.

Hasan Piker incites millions against Jews, and the silence is deafening - opinion

PRO-PALESTINE demonstration in Nancy, France, 2024

France: A license to kill


Infamous antisemitic Dreyfus Affair documents for sale

Many pieces of history from the Rennes trial will be up for auction, including courtroom sketches of Dreyfus' wife Lucie, Captain Alfred Dreyfus himself and French officer Georges-Marie Picquart.

Alfred Dreyfus

Man with the mic: The French Jewish DJ who moved to Israel

Now that Francky Perez has arrived to stay, he plans to continue working as a DJ and MC for private events in the American and French communities here.

 Francky Perez From Los Angeles to Ra’anana, September 2021

Israel and France to advance international coalition to battle antisemitism

Representatives of government ministries of both countries, civil society and the French Jewish community officials convened in Paris to discuss undergoing efforts to reduce antisemitism in France.

 The Israeli and French delegations.

Appeal starts in Paris court over Charlie Hebdo attack

The two men - Ali Riza Polat and Amar Ramdani - are among 14 convicted in December 2020 as accomplices of the attackers, who were themselves killed by police soon after the killings.

A man holds a giant pencil as he takes part in a solidarity march in the streets of Paris after the Charlie Hebdo shootings

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.

 A demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'no to antisemitism', during a protest against antisemitism and to commemorate the 2012 Toulouse attack against a Jewish school that left three children and an adult dead, at the Place de la Republique square in Paris, France, March 13, 2022.

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.  

French flag in France

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.

Anne Berest attends the Canneseries Festival in Cannes, France, April 4, 2022.

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

 Demonstrators gather at the Place de la Republique square, to protest against antisemitism and commemorate the 2012 Toulouse attack against a Jewish school that left three children and an adult dead, in Paris, France March 13, 2022

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

Dudu Tasa

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.

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