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Topic: Lyon

March 29, 2013
9:48 am

French Jewish boy’s attacker gets 10 months in jail

Assailant smashed a glass bottle on the head of kippah-clad 15-year-old

March 13, 2013
11:00 am

Fake bomb found near Jewish center in France

Those responsible ‘did everything they could’ to make device look real, official says

February 22, 2013
6:31 am

Tottenham fans injured in Lyon pub attack

English soccer club says assault less severe than anti-Semitic attack on fans in Rome last year

January 20, 2013
12:39 am

With a quarter of the students it once educated, the Maimonides educational complex in Brussels often stands empty. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Possible school closure reflects Jews’ flight from European cities

An increasingly dangerous neighborhood forces tough decisions at a Brussels institution founded as a symbol of survival after the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

December 23, 2012
6:22 am

Skiers who keep kosher now have a mountain of choices as they plan trips to the Alps. (photo credit: Courtesy of My One Hotel via JTA)

Jewish life is going downhill this winter — and that’s a good thing

With more options than ever for ‘kosher’ skiing, it’s snow big deal to book affordable trips to some of Europe’s best slopes

By Cnaan Liphshiz

December 12, 2012
3:46 pm

French teacher terminated after publicizing pupils’ anti-Semitism

Officials say students were disciplined following verbal attacks on convert to Judaism

November 29, 2012
4:53 pm

French lawyer seeks judge’s removal because he’s Jewish

Head of local bar association says he’s ‘outraged’ by request

November 21, 2012
8:50 am

Teens arrested after prayer books burned in French Jewish cemetery

Graffiti targeting Jews and pro-Palestinian activist appears in Paris and near Lyon

September 15, 2012
5:29 am

French court sentences man who hit Jew on train to suspended term

Aggressor attacked man wearing kippah last year aboard a train from Paris to Lyon

August 22, 2012
6:50 pm

The Grande Synagogue de Lyon (photo credit: CC BY Alain Lorange/Wikipedia)

Lyon’s chief rabbi receives threatening letter, Holocaust photos

‘From now on we will punish a Jew … each time that you go on television to complain,’ reads the letter signed by ‘The Network of The Just’

By Gabe Fisher

June 7, 2012
12:56 am

The Lyon suburb of Villeurbanne. (Illustrative photo: CC-BY-SA cavorite, Flickr)

Two suspects arrested in anti-Semitic attacks in France

Main perpetrator still at large after assault on three Jewish men near Lyon Saturday night

June 4, 2012
8:41 am

Protesters raising a banner reading "in France, we kill Blacks, Jews, and Arabs" during a silent demonstration in Paris in March. (Photo credit: Daniel Hoffman)

French Jews say Lyon assault latest in series of anti-Semitic incidents

After weekend attack on three Jews, leaders call atmosphere unbearable, say incidents have picked up since Toulouse shootings in March

By Philip Podolsky

June 3, 2012
10:36 pm

The Grand Synagogue in Lyon, France. (photo credit: CC-BY Anne Varak, Flickr)

Three Jews attacked in anti-Semitic incident in southern France

10 assailants set upon Jewish men in Lyon with hammer and iron bar; two hospitalized

By AP and Times of Israel staff