Numerous Jews took part in the various movements of the French Resistance during WW2. However some chose to join the M.J.S. (Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste) to bring specific help to the Jews that needed it.
Paul Giniewski who was an active member of the M.J.S. during the war has just written a book about this organization [...]
A group of sixty French MPs is asking for an enquiry about the increasing number of women who are wearing a burqa in France. They request for the Parliament to set up a committee which would make proposals on how to combat such attire which they view as a threat to individual liberties.
Thus, recently, a [...]
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in 1850. He was a sickly child who was often confined to his bedroom. As a result he longed to travel and as a young man made frequent visits to France.
In 1876 he undertook a voyage along the Oise River from Belgium through France with his friend Walter [...]
This amazing woman is Simone Veil.
She was born in Nice in 1927, worked as a magistrate and was a politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. She was also President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
In 1944, at the age of 16, she was deported [...]
By the age of seven, Séraphine Louis Maillart (1864-1942) was already an orphan. She lived for six years with her older sister then, like most girls from poor families at the time, got a job as a servant. She worked in a convent then for different families in the town of Senlis.
One of the people [...]
A Canadian man has been arrested and could face extradition to France in connection with the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in Paris 28 years ago. Hassan Diab was taken into custody today on a provisional extradition warrant issued at the request of French authorities.
The synagogue of ULIF, located in the rue Copernic, was attacked [...]
Christian, Muslim and Jewish graves on the Somme.
I spent the first 17 years of my life in a French department called Somme where war memorials and cemeteries were extremely common. As regards World War I, this region is best known by the British who lost thousands of soldiers there during the Battle of the Somme; [...]
- Anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and fascists slogans and graffiti were sprayed on the walls of a French junior high school last week. It is probably no coincidence that the school is named after René Cassin, the man who drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Judging from the slogans, which included references to White Power, the [...]
The Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU) is an international Jewish organization based in France. It was founded in Paris in 1860 by Adolphe Crémieux, as a response to the Damascus affair, with the goal to protect human rights of Jews as citizens of countries where they live. The organization was created to combine the ideals [...]
The BNVCA (Bureau National de Vigilance Contre l’Antisémitisme – the National Bureau of Vigilence Against Anti-Semitism) has just pressed charges against a store which was selling sleeveless t-shirts bearing an anti-Semitic slogan referring to a Nazi-era Jewish ghetto in Poland. They were spotted by a woman on Sunday in the 19th multiethnic district [...]
