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“There are plenty of laws against antisemitism in France, but they are not being used,” said Robert Ejnes, executive director of CRIF.The post ‘Act of cowardice,’ French Jewish leader says

(JTA) The day after a gunman killed four people outside an ancient place of Jewish worship on the Tunisian island of Djerba, men gathered in the same synagogue not to

In spite of a recent antisemitism-motivated shooting, Jewish people from the Tunisian island of Djerba continue to live their lives.

Just a day after a shooting at the synagogue, worshippers gathered to celebrate a brit milah.

The day after a gunman killed five on Tunisian island, community celebrates a brit milah, highlighting hopes it will continue to attract pilgrims and remain a beacon of coexistence

On 29 May, 1942, the Nazi occupation of Northern France banned Jews from appearing in public without wearing a yellow star on their left breast. Paris Perspective looks back at this dark period in French…

Schoolteacher and physician Sarah Halimi was severely beaten and thrown from a window by her neighbor Kobili Traore in 2017

Credit: A psychotic episode? Four years ago, Halimi was fast asleep when Traoré broke into her apartment in the middle of the night, tortured her for 20 minutes and then threw her off her third-floor balcony.  During the attack, neighbors said they heard Traoré scream Allahu akbar, the Arabic phrase for “God is great.” He also reportedly shouted, “I killed the devil.”  Traoré confessed to Halimi’s murder, but his lawyers argued that he couldn’t be tried because he was su...

Associated Press PARIS — Protesters in Paris and other French cities on Sunday denounced a ruling by France’s highest court that the killer of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible and therefore could not go on trial. Thousands of people filled Trocadero Plaza in Paris, in front of the Eiffel Tower, answering a call by Jewish associations and groups fighting antisemitism who say that justice has not been done. Other protests took place in Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Bord...

France’s highest court found that a man who threw his Jewish neighbour out a window was “in a delirious state” from heavy marijuana use when he killed her.