French jews

Lyon spate of antisemitic incidents: Teen attacked near synagogue, Holocaust memorial defaced

The Jewish community in France is feeling increasingly threatened as antisemitic attacks intensify.

A PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstration is held in Paris last month. By singling out Israel, and only Israel, for scrutiny and condemnation, President Emmanuel Macron feeds into an increasingly hostile political climate in France, the writer argues.
 France's President Emmanuel Macron, July 10, 2025.

Israel needs an emergency plan to absorb French Jews after Macron's Palestine recognition - opinion

A PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstration is held in Paris last month. By singling out Israel, and only Israel, for scrutiny and condemnation, President Emmanuel Macron feeds into an increasingly hostile political climate in France, the writer argues.

Macron's statement is a blow to peace, danger to Jews - opinion

 Israeli Kabbalah Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi.

Apocalypse in Paris? Rabbi claims Satan controls Macron, predicts Jews hunted


Airline Vueling deplanes Jewish children, arrest summer camp director due to alleged disruptions

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli called the incident a "serious" antisemitic incident, while Vueling said the crew's decision was not tied to the passenger's religion.

A Vueling Airbus A320; illustrative.

Normalized antisemitism, danger: US Jews now face what French Jews did 25 years ago - opinion

For American Jews, October 7 may represent the tectonic shift that the Second Intifada signified for French.

 The 'USS New York,’ an amphibious transport dock ship, passes by the Statue of Liberty during the ‘Parade of Ships,’ kicking off Fleet Week 2025 in New York City last month.

French rabbi tells of two attacks in one week as hate crimes rise

Friday's incident follows another in the town of Deauville in Normandy last week, when Elie Lemmel said he was punched in the stomach by an unknown assailant.

 French CRS police stand guard in front of the church a day after a hostage-taking in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy, France, where French priest, Father Jacques Hamel, was killed with a knife and another hostage seriously wounded in an attack on the church that was carried out by a

Marcel Ophuls, French Jewish director of ‘The Sorrow and the Pity,’ dies at 97

Ophuls had spent the last years of his life trying to raise the money to complete a new documentary that would have critically explored Israel and Zionism.

Marcel Ophuls poses for a portrait in the 1990s in New York City, New York.

French textbooks need fuller picture of Jewish history and antisemitism, IMPACT-se finds

Marcus Sheff, the CEO of IMPACT-se, told the Jerusalem Post that it is important to teach "not just about just how Jews died but how Jews lived."

 A person holds a placard during a demonstration against antisemitism, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Brussels, Belgium December 10, 2023.

French Jewish WWII spy Marthe Cohn dies at 105

During her time as a spy, she was able to provide the French military with information on German positions, contributing to several notable victories.

Marthe Cohn

'Eliminate this Jewish whore:' French Assembly president sent antisemitic death threats

"We've been trying to eliminate this f***ing Jew for a long time," the letters allegedly warned ahead of Braun-Pivet's book signing event in Bordeaux.

 Yaël Braun-Pivet, newly-elected President of the National Assembly, reacts as she delivers a speech during the opening session of the National Assembly in Paris, France, June 28, 2022.

Israel bars French lawmakers over planned Palestinian state recognition

Tensions between Israel and France escalate after visas for 27 French MPs are revoked. Jerusalem warns of a diplomatic clash in June.

 French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (illustration)

Clash with anti-Israel marchers at Jewish-owned Strasbourg bakery draws outrage

French politicians decried the incident, calling it antisemitic, and said that it must stop.

 Crowd gathers at Place Kleber with the call of Strasbourg Palestine Collective and marches to the Place du Chateau with slogans in support of Gaza, in Strasbourg, France on March 22, 2025.

'Dirty Jew': French Jew beaten on street in latest antisemitic attack in Villeurbanne

A man wearing a Star of David pendant necklace was allegedly attacked by two men on Friday, with one man filing and another striking the victim on the head while calling him a "dirty Jew."

French police in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, central France, August 31, 2019. (illustrative)

Man who viciously attacked Orleans rabbi arrested, victim tells 'Post'

The attacker was a minor, according to a social media statement by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.

 A member of the Jewish community prays at a synagogue in Orleans, central France, on March 23, 2025, the day after an attack to the rabbi of Orleans, for which a minor has been arrested