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April Benayoum, 21, Miss Provence 2020 and runner-up in the Miss France 2021 beauty pageant. Source: Instagram.

Miss France 2021 runner-up faces anti-Semitic hate over Israeli father

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Anti-Semitism in France reared its ugly head over the weekend after the runner-up in the Miss France 2021 beauty pageant revealed that her father was Israeli. After April Benayoum, 21, revealed her Israeli ancestry, she...
The world-famous Eiffel Tower menorah-lighting took place this year amid the coronavirus pandemic thanks to a last-minute request by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Dec. 14, 2020. Photo by Thierry Guez via Chabad.org/News.

Paris mayor’s request keeps Eiffel Tower menorah tradition alive

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In most years, the Eiffel Tower menorah-lighting in Paris is an awe-inspiring event that draws crowds in the thousands and is seen by millions on international broadcasts. But with the city in the midst...
A Jewish man waiting on the streets in Munich, Germany on May 5, 2018. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Terrorist attacks stark reminder for European Jewry, loud alarm for general society

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As Austrians were making the most of their last night in restaurants, cafes and bars on Nov. 2 before the onset of a new lockdown, a 20-year-old Islamic terrorist fired at passersby in Vienna’s...
A view of the Galilee Medical Center located in Nahariya, Israel. Source: Galilee Medical Center.

French ‘olim’ help fill needed health-care gaps in northern Israel

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As a wave of Islamist terror directed at churches and priests raises religious tensions in France, a special group of recent French immigrants is relieved to be settling into their new life in Nahariya,...
Palestinians protest against the publications of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad in France, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron's comments on Islam, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 30, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hundreds protest at Temple Mount against Muhammad caricatures; three arrested

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Hundreds of people demonstrated at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday against French President Emmanuel Macron and his pledge to protect the right to caricature the Islamic prophet Muhammad with three arrested for...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Dec. 27, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Khamenei tweets: Why a crime to deny Holocaust?

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted on Wednesday asking why it’s a crime to doubt the Holocaust, though it is permitted to insult the prophet Muhammad. “The next question to ask is: Why is...
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Jan. 22, 2020. Photo by Shlomi Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli Arabs protest against French president over Muhammad cartoons

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Around 200 Israeli Arabs gathered in Jaffa on Saturday outside the residence of France’s ambassador to Israel to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement that France would not ban cartoons of the prophet...
French President Emmanuel Macron at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on Jan. 22, 2020. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

French president says pro-Hamas group connected to beheading of teacher

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French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that a pro-Hamas group is connected to the beheading last week of a history teacher in Paris. The suspect in the murder has been identified as 18-year-old Abdoullakh Abouyezidovitch Anzorov, a...
The exterior of the Palais de Justice in Paris, France. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Can France’s courts learn from Facebook in the fight against anti-Semitism?

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Who is more effective in the fight against resurgent anti-Semitism: Facebook or the French judiciary? I’m asking this particular question because of two separate developments over the last week that, when taken together, suggest that...
A Paris bagel shop with the German word “Juden” (“Jews”) spray-painted in yellow on the front door in February 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Suspect arrested in connection with anti-Semitic graffiti in Paris

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A 31-year-old suspect has reportedly been arrested nearby and an investigation launched in connection with some 20 swastikas that were found scrawled on Rue de Rivoli in Paris, near the Louvre Museum, on Sunday. Deputy...