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8 shares A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial systems handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/ via JTA) JTA — The 2017 murder of a Jewish woman in France has again burst into global view, with protests held in several countries last week against a legal ruling that means her killer will not face a trial for murder. But who is Sarah Halimi? Why is her death becoming a cause celebre for Jew...

A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial systems handling of the Sarah Halimi case, April 25, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/ via JTA) Some of the protesters at the Justice for Sarah Halimi rally in Paris, April 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA) The Jewish community and the international Israel education organization StandWithUs holds a protest in front of the Consulate General of France on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California to de...

At the Sarah Halimi rally in Paris, I saw signs that French Jewry is nearing a breaking point Joel Mergui speaks at the rally.(Cnaan Liphshiz) Advertisement PARIS (JTA) — Joining the stream of people converging on Trocadero Square, I soon realized that this event would be significantly different from the dozens of Jewish community gatherings I had attended in France. The atmosphere, rhetoric, symbolism and attendance at the “Justice for Sarah Halimi” protest rally on April 25...

Get email notification for articles from Flora Cassen Follow Apr. 26, 2021 5:51 PM During the night of April 4, 2017, Kobili Traoré, a French citizen in his 20s, was, according to psychiatrists who examined him later in jail, in a state of delirious rage brought on by cannabis. At 4 A.M. Traoré broke into the apartment of Sarah Halimi, the  65-year old Jewish woman who was his upstairs neighbor. She took her phone to call the police, but he grabbed it out of her hands and started beating he...

The most that the staff of “Charlie Hebdo” will have to endure on the heels of the pathetic portrait of Queen Elizabeth is a slew of disgusted op-eds and social-media posts.

7,435 shares Police arrest a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market in Marseille, France, March 5, 2021 (video screenshot) People gather outside a kosher market after a man visibly brandished a knife outside a Jewish school and a kosher market in Marseille, southern France, Friday, March 5, 2021 (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) A police officer guards a Jewish school after a man visibly brandished a knife outside a Jewish school and a kosher market in Marseille, southern F...

Charlie Hebdos editor-in-chief, Gerard Biard in 2015. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP Photo It has been six years since the Islamist attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people lost their lives and millions mourned. “ Je suis Charlie” became an expression of solidarity, and Charlie Hebdo a symbol of freedom of speech and press freedom. How did the events of January 2015 change Charlie Hebdo? What is the impact of violence and threats agains...

©Tim Douet / lyoncapitale.fr It has been six years since the Islamist attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people lost their lives and millions mourned. “Je suis Charlie” became an expression of solidarity, and Charlie Hebdo a symbol of freedom of speech and press freedom. How did the events of January 2015 change Charlie Hebdo? What is the impact of violence and threats against journalists on press freedom? And finally, is satire really allowed to do every...

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation. The murderous attack on Jews at the Kosher deli in Jersey City in December 2019, the cold-blooded massacre of Jews at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris in 2015 and other acts of anti-Semitic violence shattered the illusion of many that virulent Jew-hatred ended with the fall of the Nazi regime. Or that it is only a minor question today. Why does Jew-hatred persist and how can it be eradicated? This book, kept in print and actively distri...

French Jews, political leaders mark 6 years since Hyper Cacher killings   January 22, 2021 (JTA) — Six years after millions marched across France to protest the killing of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and another four at a kosher supermarket, a lawyer for the families of four victims said the sense of solidarity that followed the attacks “has all but dissipated.” Patrick Klugman, a lawyer representing the families of the four victims of the attack on the Hyper Cacher...