Jews in France

If France cannot protect its Jews, European order may soon fall alongside it - opinion

France is the keystone of Europe's political and economic order. If Paris cannot keep the peace, Europe's confidence in its own institutions will crack with it.

|ByRABBI PINCHAS GOLDSCHMIDT
A car is set ablaze during demonstrations on October 17, 2026 in Paris, France.
Chateau D'if, viewed from Marseille.

Sages, synagogues, and seaside: Discovering Jewish history along the French Riviera

When identifying ourselves, we did not hide the fact that we are Israeli, and reactions were polite. I consider visiting places of Jewish interest a way of supporting the local community.

|ByNAHUM SCHNITZER
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.

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
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

French rabbi’s baby burned by acid placed in her stroller

Police are looking into a possible antisemitic motive.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018ByJTA
A baby in a stroller or carriage (illustrative)

French PM: There is a new form of brutal and violent antisemitism in France

The incident marked the second time in less than a month that Jewish children were targeted and violently attacked.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018BySHOSHANA KRANISH, TAMARA ZIEVE
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe attends a ceremony at the Buffault Synagogue in Paris, France, October 2, 2017.

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