France

Paris prosecutors say Holocaust survivor’s 2018 slaying was an anti-Semitic murder

The indictment follows a debate in France over how the killer of another Jewish woman in 2017 was allowed not to stand trial for actions that the courts ruled were motivated by Jew-hatred.

Frida Wattenberg speaking with her brother, Charles Smiétanski, at the Memorial for the Shoah in Paris, France on Jan. 29, 2019. (Courtesy of the Memorial for the Shoah)

Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

“She was a courageous woman and an indefatigable fighter,” the Memorial for the Shoah wrote in an obituary.

57% of French survey respondents don’t know how many Jews died during the Holocaust

The rate was higher among those under the age of 38.

Global

France will create hate crimes office after desecration of Jewish cemetery

Global

French-Jewish pundit says he supports general who killed Muslims and Jews

Ideas

How the late French president Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust

The Jo Goldenberg Restaurant in Paris, France on June 12, 2005. (David Monniaux/Wikimedia Commons)

Global

In the ’80s, French secret service promised not to pursue Palestinian terrorists who killed Jews in Paris

Global

French city official received a swastika birthday cake

Israel

Outgoing French ambassador to US calls Israel apartheid state

Ideas

The world mourned for Notre Dame. But France still struggles to accept French Jews and Muslims.

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