Posts Tagged: French Jews
Joint Int’l Jewish-Israeli Initiative for Easing Aliyah: 100 Hebrew-Language Institutes to Open Across France
The World Zionist Organization is planning to open some 100 new Hebrew-language institutes across France in 2016, in an effort to ease the process of immigration...
Record Number of French Jews Immigrated to Israel in 2015
A record number of French Jews moved to Israel this year, an immigration official said on Thursday, citing antisemitic violence and economic insecurity in the...
Hanukkah in Paris: A Time to Celebrate Life, Express Unity and Be Proud
JNS.org - What do Jan. 7 and 9, 2016, mean to you? Unless these dates have some personal significance to we who live in the relative security...
The Jews and the ‘Ordinary Citizens’
After the terrorist attacks in Paris, French citizens living in the United States received a letter from Gerard Araud, France's ambassador in Washington. After expressing...
‘Mentor-Candidate’ Platform Seeks to Provide New Roadmap for Aliyah
JNS.org - Six years ago, Israeli entrepreneur and start-up mentor Raphael Gross made a commitment to his rabbi that he would enable Jews to experience Israel...
French-Jewish Security Agency Provides Safety Guidelines for Community in Wake of Paris Attacks
French Jewry's communal security service has published instructions for Jewish leaders and community members on how to stay safe following the six coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that...
Chairman of French Jewish Organization: It’s Hard to See a Future Here
The executive director of France's leading Jewish organization, the Conseil Representatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), does not see a future for Jews in...
A Welcome and Warning to French Jews
This year's figures for immigration to Israel from France are not yet in, as such statistics are not calculated according to the Hebrew calendar. But...
French PM Says Fight Against Antisemitism ‘Must be Renewed’
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday the battle against antisemitism in the country “must be renewed.” “There is this rampant Holocaust denial, hatred of...
Jewish Groups Say Cartoon Could ‘Stimulate Renewed Violent Attacks Against French Jews’
Two Jewish groups on Friday blasted French cartoonist Plantu after he published a drawing on Facebook which they said may incite further violence against the French Jewish...
Report: Thousands of French Jews Expected to Make Aliyah to Israel This Summer
Almost half a year after the bloody terrorist attack at Paris's Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket, and in the shadow of increasing antisemitism, thousands of French Jews...
A Visit to the Jews of Cannes
I spent this past weekend on an annual family vacation to the South of France. As I have written before, Cannes is one of the most...
Heavily Armed Soldiers Photographed Guarding Jewish Wedding in Paris
Heavily armed soldiers stood guard outside a Jewish wedding in Paris over the weekend, photos posted Sunday on Twitter showed. Journalist Greg Dyett, of SBS World News in Australia,...
Israel’s Absorption Ministry Plans for Influx of French Jews
Immigration from France is on the rise: in the first half of 2015, approximately 5,100 French Jews immigrated to Israel – 25% more than in...
