Posts Tagged: France Jews
French Synagogue Vandalized For Third Time in Ten Days
The synagogue of Noisy-le-Grand of the Seine-Saint-Denis district in Paris, was vandalized on Wednesday night, the third such incident within a ten-day period. "I am 73...
Jewish Teen of Toulouse School Attacked on French Train
A Jewish teen who attends the same school in France where 3 children and a rabbi were gunned down earlier this year by a man...
Paris School Under Fire After Asking if IDF Strikes are Genocide
A French umbrella Jewish organization, CRIF, is outraged after an exam from the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine at Paris's Diderot University included...
83 Year Old French Woman Raped in Possible Anti-Semitic Attack
CRIF, the largest organization representing France's Jewish population says that an 83 year old Jewish woman who was raped in Marseilles may have been the...
Madonna Sparks Controversy in France With Nazi Symbol
Madonna is heading to France next month as she continues her world tour, "MDNA", but she's already making headlines there after depicting Marine Le Pen...
The Meaning of Sunday’s European Elections
Sunday's elections results in six European countries, particularly France, Greece and Germany, bode poorly for satisfactorily resolving the European Union's ongoing financial and political crisis. Moreover,...
What Francois Hollande Means for French Jews
In France, the election results are in—but what do they mean for the local Jewish community? Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party defeated incumbent president ...
French Jewish Leader Concerned With Socialist Hollande Victory in France
Assuring that he had no intent of exerting undue influence on the French Jewish community's vote in the upcoming presidential election, Dr. Richard...
Jewish School Boy Beaten in Another French Antisemitic Attack
A 12-year-old Jewish schoolboy was punched in the back of the head by a gang who called him a 'dirty little Jew'. The incident took...
A Bloody History: Attacks on French Jewry Since 1967
France has a checkered history of anti-Semitism and in the last few decades there have been bombings at Jewish schools and synagogues; Jewish tombs have...
EU’s Ashton Equates Toulouse, Norway Killings to Gaza
European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton spoke to Palestinian children on Monday, comparing the shooting at a Jewish School in France, in which four...
France’s Unity: A Country Comes Together in Response to Murders at Jewish School
Paris, early in the morning. Just after breakfast, the news of an attack against a Jewish school in the Southwest of France broke. Three children and...
French Prosecutor: Killer at Jewish School May be Linked to Neo-Nazi Group
According to a report from France's Le Point newspaper, the country's prosecutor believes Monday's killer may be linked to two other incidents inside France recently,...
