France

Macron campaign office vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti

The attack came less than two days before the opening of the polls Sunday morning in the runoff election between independent candidate Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front party.

Israel condemns Marine Le Pen for denying French responsibility for deporting Jews

The far-right candidate blamed the 1942 roundup and deportation of thousands from a Paris stadium on "those in power at the time, not France as such."

Chabad House opens in Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia

The area, whose main city is located 1,600 miles northeast of Melboure, is the 91st land in which the Hasidic movement maintains a year-round presence in a Jewish center.