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Marseille Consistoire

President of Marseille's Jewish community Michel Cohen Tenoudji, left, in his office at the Great Synagogue with a local Muslim leader, October 21, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
December 6, 2020, 9:16 am
Work, history and dialogue keep Jews, Muslims happy together in sunny Marseille
France’s diverse second city is home to the 3rd-largest Jewish population in Europe and 250,000 Muslims. Community president Michel Cohen Tenoudji says relations couldn’t be better
By Yaakov Schwartz
Martine Yana, director of the Edmond Fleg Center in Marseille, France, standing on its terrace roof, July 10, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
August 11, 2017, 12:28 am
It’s Jew vs. Jew in France as conflict over women reading Torah turns ugly
Anti-Semitism is encouraging Jewish isolationism and radicalization, say leaders, causing an Orthodox-Liberal rift
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
February 24, 2016, 2:13 pm
French Jew arrested for lying over Islamic State attack
Suspect, a teacher in Marseille’s Jewish community, claimed jihadists had attacked him in November
By AFP and ToI Staff
Jewish leaders gather outside a Marseille synagogue during a visit from French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, January 14, 2016. (AP/Claude Paris)
January 15, 2016, 3:02 am
French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?
Calls to hide Jewishness amount to ‘projecting part of the responsibility on the victim,’ warns France’s Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia
By Angela Charlton
People stand in fron of the 'La Source' Jewish school in Marseille, southern France, on January 11, 2016, after a Jewish teacher was attacked by a teenager wielding a machete. (AFP / BERTRAND LANGLOIS)
January 12, 2016, 7:35 pm
Marseille Jews warned against wearing kippas after attack
Move comes after machete assault Sunday, the latest in a series of recent attacks on French Jewish community
By AFP and ToI Staff
Karen Allali of the Jewish Guides and Scouts of France and Jean-Charles Zerbib (far right), an official of the Unified Jewish Social Fund, speak in Marseille, where Jewish groups are struggling to absorb cutbacks in government funding. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
January 3, 2013, 3:05 am
French Jews pay a price for government effort to curb extremism
Attempts to cut off funding to radical Muslim groups are harming Jewish organizations, while Christian groups haven’t been affected
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The staff of Marseille's Baskets for Shabbat charity gathers to raise funds during a special program on the city's Jewish radio station. (Courtesy of Paniers de Chabbat via JTA)
December 2, 2012, 3:17 pm
Jewish charities boom in one of France’s poorest cities
Despite poverty rates that dwarf the national average, Marseille’s Jewish community maintains disproportionate levels of giving
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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