French Jews

Jewish organisations in France suspect a possible antisemitic motive in the killing of a 44-year-old Jewish man near Paris.

A survey has found 45 per cent of French Jews instruct their children to hide their religion to avoid insults and possible violence.

A top French court has upheld a decision not to charge an “Allahu Akbar” yelling man accused of murdering a Jewish woman, claiming he was not criminally responsible.

As France experiences a rise in anti-semitism the heavily-migrant populated Paris suburbs are seeing their Jewish communities dwindle as families choose to move away.

PARIS – More than 300 French dignitaries and stars have signed a manifesto denouncing a “new anti-Semitism” marked by “Islamist radicalisation” after a string of killings of Jews, to be published in Le Figaro newspaper Sunday.

An Israeli tourist visiting his brother in Paris has claimed that a taxi driver in the French capital threatened to slit his throat after realising that he was a Jew from Israel during the journey. Israeli Ronen Edri told his story

France’s most famed publishing house bowed to pressure Thursday and suspended plans to reissue a collection of violently anti-Semitic pamphlets by novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

A French schoolgirl was beaten so badly over consecutive days she needed hospitalization after being attacked by classmates “for being Jewish.”

A string of violent anti-Semitic attacks in France has prompted Jews to call on government authorities to tackle what they say is an epidemic of “societal anti-Semitism.”

A Jewish family that was ambushed by three attackers in their home outside Paris and threatened with execution have told of their experience during the ordeal.

A brutal robbery that deliberately targeted a Jewish family in Paris has been condemned as “a cowardly act” that “seems directly linked to the religion of its victims.”

French President Emmanuel Macron will include Israel on a whirlwind Middle East trip next spring, in a move designed to help regional peace initiatives and promote a two-state solution.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming attendance of a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the “Vel’ d’Hiv” Holocaust-era roundup of French Jews is expected to be met with protests in Paris.

Another 5,000 French Jews emigrated to Israel last year, figures showed Monday, continuing a trend that has seen tens of thousands quit the country after a series of attacks targeting the community.

PARIS — Yael Haccoun and her family are Orthodox Jews from the working-class Paris suburb of Sarcelles, but they flew to Israel in late September to start a new life and escape the anti-Semitism around them.

Some 200 French Jews immigrated to Israel on a group flight Wednesday, in a sign of a continuing trend amid European jitters over increased anti-Semitism and terror attacks on the Continent.

TEL AVIV – Jews in France are feeling increasingly insecure and uncomfortable despite the French government’s efforts to protect them, according to Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

PARIS — Arab immigration to France and deep-seated anti-Semitism in that country mean French Jews have no future there, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel said.

MARSEILLE (AFP) – A synagogue in Marseille is to be converted into a mosque, reflecting demographic shifts in the southern French city, a Jewish leader has told AFP.

The International Business Times reports:  As the plane touched down in Israel from Paris in the summer of 2014 packed with dozens of French Jews full of hope for their new lives in Israel, a devastating conflict in the Gaza Strip raged. Israeli

Nearly 20 per cent of Muslims living in France think there are too many Jews in the country, a survey by the French Judaism Foundation has discovered. In an 18-month long Ipsos survey on “living together”, published in Le Journal

Jews are leaving France in record numbers citing fears of Islamic terrorism and rising anti-Semitism, according to a report by the Jewish Agency for Israel, leaving French politicians scrambling to provide assurances for those who choose to remain.

All French people have been urged to wear a kippah on Friday as a gesture of solidarity with the country’s increasingly besieged Jewish community. Twitter has been flooded with messages containing the hashtag ‘#TousAvecUneKippa’ (everyone with a kippa), after Zvi Ammar, the leader

France’s chief rabbi was among Jewish leaders who rejected a call for men and boys to stop wearing skullcaps, after a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the southern city of Marseille. Zvi Ammar, the leader of Marseille’s Jewish community, earlier

Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy has spoken out in defence of his country’s Jewish population as he was honoured for protecting France’s Jews at a dinner in central London on Sunday night. The Conference of European Rabbis presented the politician, who is expected run

French immigration to Israel reached a record high in 2015, Israeli officials said Thursday, citing “physical insecurity and financial uncertainty” as main driving forces. Around 8,000 French Jews were expected to have arrived over the course of the year, a

A record number of French Jews moved to Israel this year, an immigration official said on Thursday, citing anti-Semitic violence and economic insecurity in the European country as causes. France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, having grown by

PARIS (AP) — French investigators are trying to identify a chemical applied to an electronic keypad at a Paris-area synagogue that burned more than a dozen congregants. The Creteil prosecutor’s office said Friday that analysis is still taking place on

The ringleader behind the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, according to sources close to the investigation.

Over 4 million people in Paris marked themselves as safe following Friday’s deadly terror attacks using Facebook’s made-in-Israel Safety Check app. On November 14, the day of the Paris terror attack, Facebook Israel Country Manager Adi Soffer-Teeni and Director of

TEL AVIV – French Jews are divided about their future as they face an ever-growing threat from radical Islam. Yet, for most, even the attacks that killed 129 people on Friday have not been sufficient for them to consider emigration. Anti-Semitic attacks