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.
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported. The attack happened Sunday as the train was traveling from Nogent Sur Marne to Gare de Lyon, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. Two of the attackers held down the 28-year-old victim,…
Several hundred French Jews including dozens of community leaders have called for the re-election of a chief rabbi of France within three months. The community leaders made the call in a letter they sent last month to Joel Mergui, the president of the Consistoire – the French Jewish institution responsible for providing religious services, the…
The number of anti-Semitic attacks recorded in France last year decreased by 31 percent over the previous year, the French Jewish community’s watchdog on anti-Semitism said. In its annual report released Sunday, the SPCJ security organization counted a total of 423 anti-Semitic incidents in 2013 compared to 614 in 2012. However, the figure for 2013…
France’s Jewish Defense League has published a eulogy of Baruch Goldstein which celebrates a massacre he perpetrated against Palestinian worshipers in Hebron 20 years ago. The group, known locally as Ligue de Defense Juive or LDJ, posted the eulogy on its website ahead of the Feb. 25 anniversary of the massacre during which Goldstein, a…
Participants in a march against anti-Semitism in Toulouse hurled anti-Zionist insults at a Jewish fellow demonstrator. The insults were directed at Nicole Yardeni, who heads the local chapter of the CRIF umbrella group of Jewish communities, during a march by 2,000 people in Toulouse. The march was organized on Saturday by a gay group, Arc-en-Ciel,…
A still from the Woody Allen film “Annie Hall” represents a fading paradigm of intermarriage. These days, more American Jewish women than men are marrying out, as the Forward’s Josh Nathan-Kazis recently reported. The story’s headline, “Jewish Woman Is New Face of Intermarriage, Pew Study Data Reveals,” led me to wonder: If Jewish women have…
Swastikas and other hate graffiti were painted on buildings throughout the French city of Toulouse. Sunday night’s vandalism, which also included far-right symbols, struck an LBGT center, a university and cemetery, and the offices of left-wing candidates in elections next month, according to Radio France International. Police have not identified any suspects. The graffiti attacked…
A French historian has created an interactive map that charts the location of children deported from France during the Holocaust. On Monday, the online map by Jean-Luc Pinol was so overloaded with connections that it could not be accessed. Based on data collected by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, the map is part of an exhibit…
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