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Police stand guard outside the kosher supermarket in Paris in July 2015, where four Jews were murdered six months earlier in a hostage siege by an Islamist gunman. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
January 18, 2019, 2:01 pm
France to try 14 people over Jan 2015 Paris attacks
Assault on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, a policewoman, and a Jewish supermarket killed 17 people
By AFP
Well-wishers bring flowers and light candles to honor the shooting victims outside the main Synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 15, 2015. (AFP/Odd Andersen)
December 21, 2018, 2:25 pm
French prosecutors want 14 tried over Charlie Hebdo attacks
Decision comes nearly four years after 3 gunmen killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical magazine in Paris
By AFP
A man kneels to light a candle beneath a police cordon outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, after a shooting there left 11 people dead on October 27, 2018 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
October 28, 2018, 8:24 am
Pittsburgh shooting is latest in series of recent attacks on Jewish institutions
From Seattle to Toulouse to Istanbul, attackers, whether neo-Nazis or jihadists, have repeatedly targeted synagogues, schools and community centers
By Agencies
Police officers stand guard after a knife attack August 23, 2018 in Trappes, west of Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
August 23, 2018, 2:11 pm
Man kills mother, sister in Paris suburb; France sees no apparent terror tie
Trappes attacker, who was shot and killed by police, also seriously injured bystander in stabbing claimed by Islamic State
By Agencies
Salah Abdeslam, the leading suspect in the 2015 jihadist attacks on Paris. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 29, 2018, 2:23 pm
Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam justifies 2015 killings in which 130 died
‘You are suffering from the mistakes made by your leaders,’ the IS-inspired gunman says in recording, addressing victims of his rampage
By AFP
People gather around flowers and candles laid next to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 12, 2016, a few hours before the reopening concert by British musician Sting to mark the first anniversary of the November 13 Paris attacks.(AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOT)
May 31, 2018, 8:43 am
Paris attacks documentary shows victims’ defiance in face of horror
Filmmakers were in the World Trade Center with firefighters on 9/11, and shared trauma helped them connect with survivors in Bataclan
By Laurence THOMANN
Police officers cordon off the area after a knife attack in central Paris, May 12, 2018. (AP/Thibault Camus)
May 13, 2018, 1:15 pm
Paris knife attacker was on terror watch list
Sources in investigation of deadly spree say slain Chechen assailant was on ‘S list’ of suspected radical extremists
By AFP
A dead body under a blanket after a knife attack that left at least two dead including the assailant in central Paris, early Sunday May 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
May 13, 2018, 10:29 am
Paris attacker born in Chechnya; parents detained
French authorities say suspected terrorist who carried out deadly stabbing spree was born in 1997; Interior minister to hold special security meeting
By AP
Firefighters vehicles block Saint Augustin street in Paris centre after two people were killed and several injured in a knife attack in Paris on May 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON)
May 13, 2018, 8:44 am
France suffering ‘intifada,’ says Jewish lawmaker after fatal stabbing in Paris
Meyer Habib writes ‘it’s time to finish off radical Islam’ following attack by man reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’
By JTA
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech during the first day of a two-day conference in Paris, France, on combating the financing of terror groups, on April 26, 2018. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)
April 27, 2018, 5:18 am
Macron calls for global cooperation to combat terror financing
French president warns jihadists using modern banking tools, says time for West to ‘cross a new stage’ in fight against IS, al-Qaeda
By AFP
Salah Abdeslam, the last living suspected gunman in the Paris terror rampage of November 13, 2015. (Federal Police of Belgium/AFP)
April 23, 2018, 1:06 pm
Paris suspect Abdeslam found guilty, handed 20 years in Brussels shootout
Belgian-born French national also awaits trial for November 2015 terror rampage in which 130 were killed
By AFP and TOI staff
Illustrative image of someone called to the Torah. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
April 21, 2018, 7:44 am
In Paris, the demise of some Jewish congregations is fueling revival in others
A proliferation of assaults and terrorist attacks is prompting what appears to be an unlikely Jewish renaissance amid one of the community’s worst crises since World War II
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A French police officer, January 18, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)
March 8, 2018, 10:39 pm
French Jews ‘dismayed’ after judge drops charges against Arabs who attacked teen
As President Macron vows to fight anti-Semitism in country, Jewish group protests removal from charge sheet of attackers who berated, beat up Jewish boy
By JTA
Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
March 1, 2018, 11:28 pm
French police arrest four Arab teens suspected of beating Jewish boy
Attackers allegedly called 14-year-old, his sister and brother ‘dirty Jews’ as they played during Purim festival in a park
By JTA
This courtroom sketch created at the Palais de Justice court in Paris on January 26, 2018, shows Jawad Bendaoud gesturing while standing in the dock during his trial in which he stands accused of harboring two of the jihadists in the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks. (AFP/Benoit Peyrucq)
February 4, 2018, 8:01 pm
Angry families say nothing funny about wisecracking Paris attacks suspect
Jawad Bendaoud, accused of harboring jihadists after the 2015 terror attacks, has become a social media sensation over quips from stand
By AFP
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