Pupils at a school in France will no longer be given a substitute meat if they don't eat pork, as local authorities try to cut down on food waste and costs. Parents have complained about the measure.
The year 2012 saw "unprecedented violence" against members of France's Jewish community as the number of anti-Semitic attacks, both physical or verbal, rocketed by 82 percent percent, according to a report on Wednesday.
France will return seven paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries to the heirs of two Jewish families whose artworks were stolen during World War II, the culture ministry told AFP on Thursday.
A rap video of the man killed in an anti-terrorist raid in Strasbourg this weekend has been found, and shows him singing such lyrics as “9/11 is only the tip of the iceberg”.
France has finally come to terms with its role in the deportation of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps, President François Hollande said Friday as he inaugurated a new Holocaust memorial centre.
<p>French Prime Minister François Fillon has called on French Jews and Muslims to change their eating habits and scrap halal and kosher slaughter rules.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An app for the Apple iPhone which lists 3,500 well-known Jewish people has sparked criticism from anti-racist organizations and Jewish associations in France.</span></p>
