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Bradley Sherman and Princess Iman (Credit: Instagram, @ImanP)

Jewish man marries into Iranian royal family

Bradley Sherman has married Princess Iman, daughter of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

June 11, 2025, 12:26 pm

Trial of accused antisemitic child rapists begins in Paris

Last year, two 13-year-old boys and one 12-year-old boy were charged after the rape and antisemitic abuse of a 12-year-old Jewish girl

By Daniel Sugarman

June 10, 2025, 2:28 pm

Jewish man marries into Iranian royal family

Bradley Sherman has married Princess Iman, daughter of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

By Daniel Sugarman

June 2, 2025, 12:38 pm

Paris synagogues and Holocaust memorial vandalised with green paint on Shabbat

'These paint sprays are a stain on our republican values,' said the French Jewish group CRIF

By Philissa Cramer (JTA)

August 27, 2024, 12:55 pm

‘I’m just a guy turning up for work’ – the amputee Paralympian racing for gold

Danny Sidbury lost his legs to meningitis when he was two years old. Now the Finchley-born Team GB athlete speaks to Jewish News ahead of his T54 wheelchair racing qualifier

By Michelle Rosenberg

standing - Amit Hasdai, Roni Ohayon, Nadav Levi
sitting - Moran Samuel, Rudi the dog, Talya Eilat

credit Oded Karni

August 23, 2024, 11:58 am

Meet Israel’s Paralympians who’ll be led into Paris Games by a survivor of 7/10

Squad of 28 men and women including Muslim, Druze and Jewish athletes

By Jenni Frazer

Gold medalist Tom with Ankie Spitzer.
Pic: Justin Cohen

August 7, 2024, 5:03 pm

Munich Olympics widow: ‘Our record-breaking medallists are the answer to 1972’

Paris ceremony honours memory of the 11 murdered Israelis as IOC president Thomas Bach hails impact of families’ campaign on him

By Justin Cohen in Paris

Vitalii Sazonov is a Ukrainian national judo team doctor. Mr Sazonov is living as a refugee in the UK and has shared his excitement about making it to the Olympics after nearly losing his family to Russia's invasion.

August 6, 2024, 2:03 pm

How World Jewish Relief helped Ukrainian doctor get to Olympics

After taking part in WJR STEP programme the doctor was able to work with judoka team in Paris

By Jenni Frazer

The boat carrying team Israel makes its way down the Seine in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

July 29, 2024, 6:59 pm

French police investigating death threats targeting Israeli Olympians

Threats come amid mounting security concerns for Israel’s delegation of nearly 90 athletes, one of the country’s largest-ever Olympic cohorts

By Jacob Gurvis (JTA)

July 26, 2024, 6:58 pm

Advertising company removes Paris anti-Israel posters

Posters timed to coincide with opening of Olympic Games 2024

By Jenni Frazer

July 22, 2024, 11:46 am

Far-left French MP claims Israeli athletes ‘not welcome in Paris’ ahead of Olympics

Thomas Portes, from the ultra-left France Unbowed party, is condemned after calling for Israel delegation ban days before Paris Olympics begin

By JN Reporter

June 19, 2024, 1:00 pm

Three teenagers arrested in France following rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl

Boys aged 12, 13 and 14 arrested on Monday after the girl reported the incident in the northwestern Paris suburb of Courbevoie.

By Michelle Rosenberg

John Galliano (left) after a drunken antisemitic outburst lost him his job as creative director of Christian Dior.

May 7, 2024, 4:01 pm

Fashion icon dropped for antisemitism may get job back

John Galliano, fired by Dior over antisemitism, likely to be rehired by group which owns luxury fashion brands

By Jenni Frazer

August 3, 2023, 1:49 pm

‘Paris Memories’ evokes the trauma of the terror attacks in the French capital

Filmmaker Alice Winocour brings her family's personal experience to bear in her new fmovie

By Stephen Applebaum

Smotrich delivers Paris speech in front of banner with Greater Israel map

March 20, 2023, 10:49 am

Smotrich gives speech next to Israel map featuring parts of Jordan and Syria

Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich described the Palestinians as 'fictitious' during a speech in Paris over the weekend.

By Lee Harpin

Jews at the Vel d’Hiv. They were taken to internment camps before being sent to Auschwitz

July 13, 2022, 8:29 pm

‘Britain failed French Jews when we needed her most’

A British Holocaust refugee who was in Paris when Jews were rounded up and deported from the city in 1942 has criticised the government’s response to events 80 years ago this week.

By Stephen Oryszczuk