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Joining the stream of people converging on Trocadero Square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 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 suggested to me that France’s Jewish community is entering a new phase in the decades-long slip of its members’ confidence in their future here. The rally — an event with 20,000 participants, one of the largest communal gatherings in decades...

A woman holds up a sign during the day of rallies around the world protesting the French judicial system's 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 demand justice for Sarah Halimi. - Sarah Halimi a 65-year-old French Jewish woman was killed by her ...

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 suggested to me that France’s Jewish community is entering a new phase in the decades-long slip o...

The building where Sarah Halimi was killed in Paris, France, pictured on April 24, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz) Advertisement PARIS (JTA) — Thousands of protesters, many of them Jewish, gathered in the French capital to protest the judiciary’s decision not to try a man who killed his Jewish neighbor while shouting about Allah. Under the banner of “Justice for Sarah Halimi,” the rally Sunday at Trocadero Square overlooking the Eiffel Tower reflected the widespread indignation of many French Jews at the April 14 ruling by their country’s highest court. It affirmed lower tribuna...

29 shares Protesters gathered in Paris, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and London on Sunday to demonstrate against the ruling of France’s highest court that the killer of a Jewish woman in the French capital was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, was pushed out of the window of her Paris flat to her death in 2017 by neighbor Kobili Traore, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic). But in a decision earlier this month, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld ruling...