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Sarah Halimi was murdered for being a religious Jew. Why has her own community ignored her fate?   Photos: Menachem Kalish; Flash90 A few days before Pesach 2017, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish preschool director, had come home from work when an intruder entered through the balcony doors of her third-floor apartment in Paris’s 11th arrondissement. It was her downstairs neighbor Kobili Traoré, a towering, fanatically religious Muslim originally from Mali, and he’d come to kill her. Within seconds, Sarah was fighting desperately for her life, as Traoré, high on cannabis, screamed “...

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...