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An area of Levallois-Perret in the Hauts-de-Seine department, France, April 6, 2026. (Laure Boyer / Hans Lucas via AFP)
July 28, 2026, 2:03 pm
Over 12 Torah scrolls stolen from Paris suburb synagogue
A local Jewish leader called the burglary “a profound spiritual trauma.”
By Shira Li Bartov
Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in the Jerusalem Day parade at the Damascus Gate in the old city of Jerusalem, May 14, 2026. The controversial annual march sees thousands of nationalist Israelis celebrate the capture of the formerly Jordanian-held east of the city during the Six-Day War in 1967. (Erik Marmor/Getty Images)
June 10, 2026, 9:46 am
France bans Smotrich as 6 countries impose new sanctions over Israeli settler violence
The U.K. has for the first time advised businesses against economic and financial activity in the West Bank.
By Shira Li Bartov
Raphael Mimoun and his wife, Eva Cohen, at a Paris event for medical professionals eyeing a move to Israel. (Credit: Thierry Van Biesen, May 3, 2026)
May 4, 2026, 9:14 am
‘No future for Jews of France:’ Scores of French doctors to immigrate to Israel
Nearly four of five French Jews feel unsafe, according to a recent survey.
By Etgar Lefkovits
The pediment of the Versailles Court of Appeal, located in the former Queen's Stables, on September 30, 2011. (JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP via Getty Images)
April 18, 2026, 10:00 pm
French appeals court rejects antisemitism charge in poisoning of Jewish family by nanny
The family’s lawyers said they would seek to appeal the latest ruling.
By Grace Gilson
Tzav 9 activists block the entrance to Ashdod Port during a protest against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, Feb. 1, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, via JNS)
February 4, 2026, 9:15 am
French-Israeli slams ‘genocide’ summons as effort to criminalize defending Israel
Rachel Touitou says charges against her and fellow activist Nili Kupfer-Naouri are a test case aimed at later prosecuting French citizens who served in the IDF.
By Amelie Botbol and Canaan Lidor
Nora Bussigny at the podium of the French Senate as she receives the 2025 Prix Edgar Faure for best political book of the year. (Photo courtesy of Nora Bussigny)
January 21, 2026, 12:16 pm
An undercover reporter joined France’s anti-Israel movement. Here’s what she found
In her explosive book ‘Les Nouveaux Antisemites,’ journalist Nora Bussigny reveals pervasive hatred of Jews and Israel on the radical left and worries for country’s future
By Robert Sarner
A Jewish home destroyed on Oct. 7 when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip, Oct. 25, 2023. (Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90)
January 15, 2026, 9:14 am
French publisher recalls books portraying Oct. 7 victims as ‘Jewish settlers’
The textbooks' historical revisionism is “intolerable,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X.
By JNS Staff
Gilles Cohen, a 67-year-old observant Jew, was attacked on antisemitic grounds on Sep. 27, 2025, in Yerres (Essonne), a suburb south of Paris. (Credit: Cohen’s family)
September 29, 2025, 9:07 am
Jewish man ‘brutally assaulted,’ called ‘Dirty Jew’ in France
Gilles Cohen, 67, was walking home from the mikveh when he was attacked from behind.
By JNS Staff
A girl rides a 750-meter extreme zipline in Jerusalem from the Armon Hanatziv Promenade to the Peace Forest, Aug. 20, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90, via JNS)
August 22, 2025, 2:37 pm
France: Park manager denies entry to 150 Israeli children
The manager was taken into police custody on suspicion of “discrimination based on religion in the provision of goods or services.”
By JNS Staff
A Palestinian masked child holds a rifle as he stands between two Hamas militants at the site where the bodies of four Israeli hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on Feb. 20, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images via JNS)
August 3, 2025, 7:57 pm
Hamas: Palestinian state recognition ‘fruits of Oct. 7’
Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar to France, the U.K. and Canada: "If this is who applauds you, what does it say about you?"
By JNS
French President Emmanuel Macron talks to media in Berlin on July 23, 2025. (Christian Mang/Getty Images)
July 25, 2025, 8:20 am
Emmanuel Macron: France will unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state this fall
Israeli and U.S. officials said the move “rewards terror” and “serves Hamas propaganda.”
By Philissa Cramer
A photo shows green paint thrown on the walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue in Paris on May 31, 2025. The Shoah Memorial, two synagogues, and a restaurant in central Paris were sprayed with green paint overnight on May 30, 2025, according to police sources. (Photo by Magali Cohen / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP via Getty Images)
June 1, 2025, 9:32 am
Paris synagogues and Holocaust memorial vandalized with green paint on Shabbat
“These paint sprays are a stain on our republican values,” said the French Jewish group CRIF.
By Philissa Cramer
France's President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference at the 19th Summit of the Francophonie at the Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 5, 2024. On the Oct. 7 anniversary he expressed his solidarity with “the pain of the Israeli people” on social media and met with the families of French hostages being held by Hamas. (Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images)
April 10, 2025, 9:45 am
France will move to recognize a Palestinian state this year, Macron says
The decision would be a major shift for the country with Europe’s largest Jewish community.
By Grace Gilson
Police take measures around Stade de France prior to the UEFA Nations League League A Group A2 football match between France and Israel in northern suburb Saint-Denis of Paris, France, Nov. 14, 2024. (Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images)
November 14, 2024, 12:58 pm
Fearing Amsterdam-style violence, Paris police deploy en masse to France-Israel soccer match
Israel warned its citizens not to attend the game, but 150 supporters will attend under police guard.
By Shira Li Bartov
Solange Lebovitz shares her story at the Holocaust Center’s Sept. 12 event at Chatham University (Photo by Abigail Hakas)
September 16, 2024, 10:16 am
Solange Lebovitz recounts her experiences at Holocaust Center event
As a child, Lebovitz was hidden in France with a Catholic couple.
By Abigail Hakas
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