Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the nation of France.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the nation of France.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the nation of France.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the nation of France.
(JTA) — The French education ministry sent out a circular reminding teachers that wearing religious symbols in public schools is illegal and urging them to punish noncompliant students. The reminder appeared in an 83-page document sent out Wednesday to thousands of public schools throughout France titled “handbook on laïcité,” a French-language word describing the principal…
(JTA) — Zionism is a Jewish conspiracy meant to manipulate Western societies to benefit Jews. That’s the belief of a majority of 1,007 French respondents to a poll about the Jewish nationalist movement. Some 53 percent of the respondents to the survey conducted this year by the Ifop polling company agreed with the statement that…
(JTA) – Following the stabbing of five people in central Paris by a man who shouted about Allah, a French-Jewish lawmaker said France was experiencing a “knife intifada.” One victim died from a wound to the neck and two were severely wounded in the attack Saturday near the Paris Opera, which French authorities are treating…
(JTA) — A 20-year-old man who brandished a weapon at a Holocaust museum in western France was hospitalized at a psychiatric institution. The man shouted and waved around an unloaded rifle Tuesday at the Memorial for the Deported Museum in Mayenne, Le Parisien reported Friday. The man used the weapon, a hunting rifle, to threaten an employee at…
(JTA) — Thirty imams in France signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to help counter Muslim extremism. The letter, which appeared Tuesday in the daily LeMonde, expressed “compassion for all our fellow citizens who have been directly or indirectly affected by terrorism and by the anti-Semitic crimes that have blindly struck our country.”…
(JTA) — A Jewish cemetery near Paris was desecrated by a person who vandalized eight headstones, a watchdog on anti-Semitism said. The incident earlier this week resulted in light damage to the headstones at the cemetery in Seine Saint Denis north of the French capital, according to a statement Wednesday by Sammy Ghozlan, president of…
(JTA) — A Jewish man was killed in his apartment in Paris, where the victim’s twin brother found his lifeless body bound and with a plastic bag covering his face. The brother of Jeremy Dahan called a locksmith to open the door of the apartment in the city’s 12th District, near the eastern suburb of…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the son of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor from Paris who was burned and found dead with 11 stab wounds in what is being called an anti-Semitic attack. Netanyahu on Sunday spoke with Daniel Knoll, the son of Mireille Knoll, who was found dead in her arsoned…
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