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Topic: SPCJ

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 25, 2013
3:29 pm

30 percent rise in anti-Semitism cases in Belgium

Numbers for 2012 likely don’t reflect full extent of problem, government agency says

February 20, 2013
5:45 am

Hundreds gather in Toulouse to pay their respects to the victims of Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah (photo credit: AP/Thibault Camus)

Study finds sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks in France

614 incidents in 2012 represent a 58 percent increase over the previous year, says SPCJ report

January 20, 2013
6:40 am

French legionnaires exit a military plane at Bamako airport, Mali (photo credit: AP/Jeremy Lempin)

French Jews fear repercussions of Mali incursion

Community security official says military deployment causing ‘agitation’ in the country’s Islamic circles

January 3, 2013
5:52 am

Anti-Semitic graffiti (illustrative photo: CC BY zeeweez, Flickr)

Swastika, anti-Semitic slogans spray-painted on Toulouse building

French city was the site of March 2012 attack that killed Jewish teacher and three school-children

By Times of Israel staff

November 25, 2012
4:30 pm

Johan Tynnel, the director of security for Denmark’s Jewish community, addresses a European Jewish Congress crisis management seminar in Brussels. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Low on funds and state protection, Europe’s Jews remain vulnerable

Facing constant threats and limited resources, communities across the continent are struggling to provide their own security

By Cnaan Liphshiz

November 21, 2012
9:00 am

US criticized for not reporting hate crimes to OSCE

Most other member countries also fail to adequately track anti-Semitic and other attacks, group says

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

November 13, 2012
6:46 pm

Dutch police nab suspected stabber of French Jew

Twenty-two-year-old attacker allegedly stabbed Haredi man four times in front of his family

October 20, 2012
7:28 am

Young Arab residents of Marseille taunt police as they drive recklessly down a central avenue last month. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Marseille’s Jews see growing attacks and fear their calm may be fleeting

Jews in France’s second biggest city attribute relatively low level of of anti-Semitic violence to everything from the pro-Israel mayor to Jewish mobsters

By Cnaan Liphshiz

October 13, 2012
9:49 pm

Letter from Strasbourg: Living with anti-Semitism

The sides are clear: The government, the Jewish community, and the moderate Muslim community versus the radical Islamic terrorists and their sympathizers

By Andrew Srulevitch

October 11, 2012
7:45 pm

Anti-Semitic attacks in France rise 45 percent this year

More than a quarter of the cases involved violence; the rest were acts of intimidation

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

June 24, 2012
10:57 pm

Chief rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim (photo credit: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Olevy/Wikimedia)

French chief rabbi receives death threats on Facebook