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The Louvre in Paris. Photo: Annabel Sinclair
May 6, 2026, 5:01 pm
Tracing Jewish Paris, from Herzl to the Holocaust
An LSJS educational trip explored the French capital through synagogues, museums, Holocaust memory and modern Jewish life
By Annabel Sinclair
Member of Parliament of the "La France Insoumise" (LFI) group Mathilde Panot and founder of left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon rise their fists the election night of left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) following the first results of the second round of France's legislative election at La Rotonde Stalingrad in Paris
July 10, 2024, 9:33 am
SPECIAL REPORT: French Jews caught between a rock and hard place after election shock
Cost of rejection of extreme right is possible coalition with antisemitic extreme left
By Jenni Frazer
Emile Ackermann and Myriam Ackermann-Sommer are leading what is thought to be one of the only Modern Orthodox congregations in France. (David Khabinsky)
June 29, 2023, 1:00 pm
France gets its first Orthodox woman rabbi
Orthodoxy, which traditionally prohibits women from leading prayer services or becoming rabbis, has long been the predominant Jewish denomination in France.
By Alice D'oléon (JTA)
French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
February 6, 2023, 7:39 am
Macron to Netanyahu: Proposed Supreme Court changes threaten Israeli democracy
France, home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, has long been one of Israel’s closest allies on the continent.
By David I Klein (JTA)
Sarah Halimi (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)
April 15, 2021, 3:54 pm
French court upholds decision not to try man who killed Jewish neighbour
Kobili Traore will not have to stand trial over the 2017 killing of Sarah Halimi, because the court said he was too high on marijuana to be criminally responsible for his actions
By JTA
Sanitising in a synagogue
May 10, 2020, 8:59 am
At least 1,300 French Jews have died of COVID-19
France’s Jewish burial society reported the figure after declining requests to disclose numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic 
By JTA
Sarah Halimi (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)
December 20, 2019, 1:24 pm
Paris court: Killer of Jewish woman not responsible for actions due to marijuana
Communal anger after court relieved Kobili Traore, 29, of criminal responsibility for his slaying of Sarah Halimi
By JTA
French police
December 19, 2018, 4:11 pm
Paris woman’s nose broken in alleged antisemitic assault
Complaint made to the police by 20-year-old woman who was reportedly attacked in the district of Sarcelles
By JTA
French Jewish scouts. Source: CRIF website
November 16, 2018, 12:18 pm
French Jews barred from interfaith Scout meeting in Tunisia
Two delegates of the International Forum of Jewish Scouts were excluded from the meeting held last week in the resort town of Hammamet
Claude Lanzmann
July 5, 2018, 12:35 pm
Director of historic Holocaust film ‘Shoah’, Claude Lanzmann, dies aged 92
French filmmaker best-known for his nine-and-a-half-hour masterpiece bearing witness to the murder of six million Jews, passes away at a Paris hospital this week
The synagogue, 24 Copernic Street, Paris
January 12, 2018, 3:40 pm
French Jews protest synagogue bombing suspect’s release without trial
Jewish umbrella group CRIF was “indignant” about the release of Hassan Diab, suspected of involvement in the 1980 attack
By JTA
Dieudonne M’bala M’bala
November 20, 2017, 3:35 pm
French courts punish promoters of anti-Semitic hate speech
A series of tough rulings are made by French judges against those who incite hatred against Jews
By JTA
French police
September 11, 2017, 1:23 pm
French Jewish family beaten in ‘anti-Semitic’ home invasion
Three men break into house of Sephardi Jewish leader, beating his son and wife before reportedly saying 'you Jews have money'
By JTA
Benjamin Netanyahu and Emmanuel Macron
July 17, 2017, 9:59 am
President Macron condemns anti-Zionism as ‘reinvention of anti-Semitism’
French leader calls opposition to Israel a new form of masked Jew-hatred during Holocaust memorial event in Paris
Women of the Wall reading from the Torah at Robinson's Arch at the Western Wall complex in Jerusalem
June 30, 2017, 10:33 am
Women Torah readers at French synagogue threatened, insulted
A group of half a dozen women read the Torah at the Fleg Jewish centre in Marseille, stirring anger with Orthodox critics
By JTA
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