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'If Israel falls, we fall': Fate of West tied to Israel, former French PM tells 'Post' - interview

"The stakes of the world... the fight against the regime of the Mullahs and its dangers, the links between Iran and Russia, the future of France and Europe is being decided here," he said.

France's Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls leaves after a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on September 3, 2025.
French flag and court gavel in this illustration taken November 5, 2025.

Algerian nanny imprisoned for poisoning French Jewish family

EJC President Dr Moshe Kantor at the Paris Mayors Summit on Antisemitism

EJC president warns of dangerous influence of social media in youth radicalization

A VIEW of Efrat: It’s worth reminding ourselves that aliyah is not a nostalgic story from the past but the very heartbeat of Zionism today, the writer affirms.

Aliyah continues to be a driving force behind Israeli communities - opinion


Appeal starts in Paris court over Charlie Hebdo attack

The two men - Ali Riza Polat and Amar Ramdani - are among 14 convicted in December 2020 as accomplices of the attackers, who were themselves killed by police soon after the killings.

A man holds a giant pencil as he takes part in a solidarity march in the streets of Paris after the Charlie Hebdo shootings

French Jews 'on the front line' of battling antisemitism - CRIF head

The French Jewish community has been facing a lot of antisemitism lately and they are calling on authorities to dig into all possible motivations of the attacks.

 A demonstrator holds a sign that reads 'no to antisemitism', during a protest against antisemitism and to commemorate the 2012 Toulouse attack against a Jewish school that left three children and an adult dead, at the Place de la Republique square in Paris, France, March 13, 2022.

Authorities claim that French Jew wasn't killed for antisemitic reasons

Despite the government's claim that the attack was not antisemitic, social media posts have displayed the alleged assassin burning the flag of Israel.  

French flag in France

How French author Anne Berest confronted her family’s Holocaust story

The success of what Berest calls her anxiety-filled “identity research” is an “encouraging sign of awareness by society of the Holocaust amid troubling times,” she told JTA.

Anne Berest attends the Canneseries Festival in Cannes, France, April 4, 2022.

Amid existential angst, Parisian Jews bet on their community’s future with giant community center

The new building, which opened late in 2019 but due to the COVID-19 pandemic began operating fully only in recent months, is partly a response to rising challenges

 Demonstrators gather at the Place de la Republique square, to protest against antisemitism and commemorate the 2012 Toulouse attack against a Jewish school that left three children and an adult dead, in Paris, France March 13, 2022

Seventeenth Festival of Jewish Cultures concludes with concert by Dudu Tassa

The event, coordinated with the Department of Culture of the Israeli Embassy in Paris, took place at the Le Trianon Theatre

Dudu Tasa

France has 500,000 Jews but only 5 women rabbis. A growing movement is pushing to change that.

In France, there are only five female rabbis in a country with over half a million Jews.

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What are the Jewish roots of France’s newest prime minister?

Elisabeth Borne is the second woman to hold the position; Her family fled the Nazis in Poland in 1939

 Newly-appointed French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne gestures as she attends a handover ceremony in the courtyard of Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, May 16, 2022.

Éric Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial charge: 'French Nazi collaborator saved Jews'

Several left-leaning anti-racism groups had filed complaints against Zemmour over comments saying a French collaborator with the Nazis had saved most French Jews.

 ERIC ZEMMOUR, leader of the French far-right party “Reconquete!” who is running in this year’s French presidential election, is seen at a campaign rally in Lille, northern France earlier this month.

If Marine Le Pen wins in France, French Jews mull aliyah to Israel

Officials in Israel’s national institutions do not see any potential rise in interest in aliyah to Israel as a result of the possible political change.

Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party, delivers a speech during a debate on migration at the National Assembly in Paris, France, October 7, 2019.