The kosher supermarket was chosen deliberately. Men, women and children were shopping and preparing for Shabbat. Only two days before the attack, terrorists had left 10 of the best-known satirical journalists and cartoonists dead at Charlie Hebdo.
The manager of the Paris kosher supermarket that came under attack plans to move to Israel, his brother told a German newspaper.
The soul of the French republic would be at risk if there were a mass exodus of Jews from France, the country’s prime minister said.
When he heard that four Jews had died in an attack on a kosher supermarket near his home, 16-year-old Natan Kalifa was overcome with grief, anger and a feeling of exclusion from French society.
Is the recent uptick in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe due, in part, to the distance in time from the Holocaust and a fading memory of the 6 million Jews who perished in it?
Reaching a 25-year high, immigration to Israel from France has become the largest single source of newcomers to Israel so far this year.
The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy on Tuesday condemned anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia that have marred rallies against Israel\’s role in its conflict with Hamas in which about 600 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have died.
Some 5,000 French Jews participated in an aliyah fair in Paris.
Francois Hollande became the first Socialist president of France in nearly two decades, defeating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
Philanthropist Hubert Leven, a French Ashkenazi Jew who recently visited Los Angeles, has ties to the close-knit Iranian Jewish community that go back four generations.
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