France Jews

Momentum brings Jewish women to Israel on empowerment mission

Many of the women had felt disconnected from their Jewish identities after marrying non-Jews and felt the program was an empowering return.

Despite boycotts, Smotrich meets Jewish organizations in France

During the meeting, the participants raised issues such as the state of aliyah to Israel and difficulties that professionals in the medical fields from France encounter when trying to immigrate.

07/06/2023
A man wearng a T-shirt with the message, "Boycott Israel Apartheid" holds a Palestinian flag during

French parliament declares Israel not an apartheid state

Habib called the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state “the biggest fake news of the 21st century” and “the fuel that drives all of the antisemites in the world.”

Will this French immigrant to Israel be its next Ambassador to France?

Touati is a candidate on behalf of the Sephardic ultra-orthodox Shas Party and as well as members of Likud.

General view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

Paris court gives 1980 synagogue bomber life sentence

The bombing, which took place on Oct. 3, 1980, was understood to be the first fatal antisemitic attack in France since the Holocaust.

By ALICE D'OLEON/JTA
22/04/2023

4 decades later, new trial of alleged 1980 Paris synagogue bomber offers victims closure

An arrest warrant in the 1980 bombing that killed four people and wounded 46 was first issued for Diab, a Lebanese academic who lives in Canada, in 2008.

By ALICE D'OLEON/JTA
07/04/2023

Solidarity of French Jews with Israel must not weaken - opinion

For the Diaspora, being Jewish means knowing what we owe to liberal democracy and the rule of law.

By YONATHAN ARFI
16/03/2023

Smotrich to meet senior Orthodox Jewish officials in US, France

Smotrich will be meeting with rabbis and teachers at Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst as well as the Zionist Organization of America.

14/03/2023

Aliyah minister: Decreased US, France immigration urges us to invest

Ofir Sofer is “expected to allocate budgets for programs intended to integrate new immigrants into the employment market.”

26/02/2023

French PM shares story of Holocaust-survivor father’s suicide when she was a child

The prime minister’s father, Joseph Bornstein (who later became “Borne”) suffered from trauma and severe depression.

14/02/2023
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