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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

French Jews

Illustrative: French law enforcement officers stand in front of a synagogue after two cars, one containing a gas bottle, were set alight in the area that morning, causing an explosion that injured a local policeman, La Grande-Motte, south of France, on August 24, 2024. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)
June 14, 2025, 5:19 pm
France boosts security around Israeli, Jewish, American sites due to Iran conflict
Interior minister orders ‘special vigilance’ against ‘malicious acts by a foreign power,’ as fear of terror plots grows amid Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program
By AFP and ToI Staff
A photo shows green paint thrown on the walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Thibaud Moritz/AFP)
May 31, 2025, 7:21 pm
Holocaust memorial, two synagogues in Paris vandalized with green paint
French politicians condemn acts; interior minister has called for heightened surveillance for Jewish community ahead of Shavuot holiday
By AFP and ToI Staff
Director Marcel Ophuls shows the Berlinale Camera award after he is honored for his lifetime achievement during the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, February 11, 2015. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
May 27, 2025, 8:05 am
Director of French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ dies at 91
Oscar-winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls forced France to face its WWII past with movie that punctured myth of broad resistance against collaboration with the Nazis
By Thomas Adamson
Captain Alfred Dreyfus (2nd R) speaks with General Gillain (C) after being awarded the Legion of honor award during a ceremony marking Dreyfus' rehabilitation, at Ecole Militaire in Paris, on July 21, 1906 (Photo by AFP)
May 6, 2025, 11:52 pm
French lawmakers want Dreyfus promoted, 130 years after treason scandal
Nod to falsely convicted French Jewish military officer would advance modern battle against antisemitism, draft law says
By AFP
French TV host Cyril Hanouna attends a session before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the allocation of TV frequencies, at the National Assembly in Paris on March 14, 2024. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP)
April 29, 2025, 10:31 pm
Jewish far-right TV host in France rules out possible presidential run
After teasing listeners of his radio show earlier this week, and the publication of his purported manifesto, Cyril Hanouna declares speculation ‘an excellent prank,’ all a PR stunt
By Stuart Williams
Demonstrators sing the French national anthem as they take part in a gathering in support of Arié Engelberg, the rabbi of Orléans, on March 25, 2025, after he was attacked. (JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)
April 24, 2025, 5:00 pm
Teenager in France sentenced to 16 months in prison for attacking rabbi
Moroccan 16-year-old, who arrived in France less than a year ago, ‘expressed no remorse’ during closed-door trial in juvenile court, say Jewish leaders in Orléans
By AFP
A sports car drives along the Place de l'Etoile, in front of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, France, February 18, 2025. (AP/Aurelien Morissard)
April 14, 2025, 4:01 am
A French taxi app for visiting Israelis is gaining popularity amid rising antisemitism
Monite, an application similar to Uber designed specifically for Hebrew speakers, is catching on beyond its intended audience, as unprecedented levels of hate threaten local Jews
By Romain Chauvet
Elsa Guedj plays a rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur in Max's 'Reformed.' (Courtesy Max via JTA)
April 8, 2025, 4:29 am
New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts French woman rabbi based on Delphine Horvilleur
Inspired by the memoir of one of France’s few female Jewish clergy, the show portrays the internal and external challenges of a religious, political and intellectual pioneer
By Shira Li Bartov
French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) President and MEP Jordan Bardella listens to speeches as part of the celebrations for International Women's Rights Day, during a plenary session of the European Parliament on March 11, 2025 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Frederick Florin / AFP)
March 24, 2025, 3:20 pm
French Jewish group seeks distance from Israeli confab drawing far-right leaders
CRIF umbrella group stresses invites for Jordan Bardella, Marion Marechal to attend Jerusalem antisemitism event came from Israeli authorities, noting ‘distrust’ of National Rally
By AFP and ToI Staff
Rabbi Arié Engelberg, chief rabbi of Orleans, France, giving an online sermon (Screenshot/Arié Engelberg, YouTube)
March 23, 2025, 5:57 pm
Chief rabbi of Orléans assaulted in antisemitic hate crime, French authorities say
Rabbi Arié Engelberg is attacked while walking with son, suffering head injury; teenage suspect is arrested; Macron condemns incident as example of the ‘poison’ of antisemitism
By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies
Rachel Neiman, a spokesperson at the National Library of Israel, examines a 15th-century manuscript featuring Mezukak Shivatayim ('Distilled Sevenfold'), a previously lost commentary on Maimonines’s Misheh Torah is on display at the National Library of Israel in February 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2025, 11:10 am
Lost & found: Early commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on display in Jerusalem
Now housed at the National Library, 15th-cent. Mezukak Shivatayim extensively quotes Jewish sages whose works are unknown to scholars, opening the way to recover thinkers’ lost wisdom
By Rossella Tercatin
Arthur Harari (right) as attorney Georges Kiejman in 'The Goldman Case.' (Courtesy of Menemsha Films/Moonshaker)
December 4, 2024, 1:35 am
Award-winning French film about Jewish radical shrouded in mystery makes US debut
‘The Goldman Case’ tells the story of Pierre Goldman, who was convicted of murdering two pharmacists in a robbery before a retrial cleared him of the charges
By Shira Li Bartov
Ofer Bronchtein in Paris, August 2024. (Hally Pancer)
October 29, 2024, 3:12 am
Macron’s point man on Israel-Palestine says ‘it’s not the right time to think about peace’
French-Israeli Ofer Bronchtein believes that conditions conducive to peace will eventually return, despite a deteriorating relationship between the French and Israeli leaders
By Robert Sarner
In this photo taken on Thursday Jan. 30, 2020, Victor Perahia, interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen shows a Jewish badge as he speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
October 3, 2024, 7:23 pm
Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor, head of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91
After years of silence, Perahia became a leading Holocaust educator; Macron: Ever-present ‘racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds’
By AP
A police officer walks past a burnt car being moved on the bed of a towing vehicle in the seaside resort of La Grande Motte, near the city of Montpellier, southern France, on August 26, 2024, following the August 24, 2024 attack to the Beth Yaacov synagogue. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)
August 29, 2024, 12:50 am
French synagogue attacker who ‘long nursed hatred toward Jews’ faces terror charges
Prosecutors say suspect researched Jewish holidays and Shabbat customs before Saturday’s attack, told acquaintances he wanted to fight in Gaza
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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