French Jews, beset by anti-Semitism, move to Israel in record numbers in 2004
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Jewish immigration to Israel from France - where anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise - has reached its highest level in more than three decades, immigration officials said Tuesday.
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Vandalized Jewish graves in western Europe. Growing support for extreme-right parties in Germany. Comments by France's far-right leader playing down the evils of the Nazi occupation.
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A Jewish social centre in Paris has been set on fire in what the authorities say was an anti-Semitic arson attack. No-one was injured in the attack but the centre, on the ground floor of a building, was badly damaged.
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Arsonists destroyed a Jewish community center in eastern Paris before dawn on Sunday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as ''Jews get out.'' Flames gnawed away the wooden ...
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Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared Sunday that &quot;France will be extremely severe against those who perpetrate anti-semitism,&quot; after visiting the Jewish social
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Arsonists razed a Jewish community centre in eastern Paris before dawn Sunday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as &quot;Jews get out.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom said here Wednesday that he was confident French authorities are making every effort to fight against anti-Semitism.
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PARIS - In one of the worst recent anti-Semitic attacks in France, arsonists destroyed a Jewish center in Paris after daubing it with racist graffiti and swastikas, provoking condemnation by the entire political class Sunday and touching off a manhunt
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French police arrest a Jewish man over a fire at  a Paris Jewish centre initially blamed on anti-Semites.
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(InfoWorld) - The stars of the French blogging firmament attending a social media conference on the edge of Paris were outshone on Tuesday by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who stopped by for a surprise visit. A last-minute addition to the program, Peres spoke in English for 45 minutes, touching on themes including economic development, philanthropy, transparency, and democracy, but hardly spoke about IT. Conference host and blogger LoÃ¯c Le Meur said that Peres invited himself to the event. The Israeli politician was apparently already in Paris, and had encountered Le Meur before, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Le Meur said. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is also expected to pay a visit to the conference, Le Web 3, on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday morning, Le Meur said everyone at the event had invited themselves. Le Web 3 was promoted purely by word of mouth, he said, and he had not sent invitations to any of the 1,000 people who signed up for the conference, 55 percent of them from outside France. However, Le Meur changed tack on Monday afternoon, as he wrote later in his blog. Profiting from the prestige that Peres' visit brought to the conference, Le Meur invited three presidential candidates to attend: Sarkozy, of the ruling right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP); SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal of the Socialist Party, and FranÃ§ois Bayrou of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF). That Sarkozy was the first to reply and accept Le Meur's invitation is little surprise. Le Meur interviewed Sarkozy in a video for his blog last year, and then announced his intention to vote for Sarkozy in a Sept. 10 blog entry. Both blog postings were widely reported in the mainstream press at the time. It was Bayrou that turned up at the event first though, drawn as he put it by the potential audience of 60 million readers. The real reach of French blogs is harder to determine. Studies have reported that the country may have as many as 20 million bloggers. However, there are only 10 million Internet subscribers in France, according to government statistics. Only 1.2 million, or around 2 percent of the 62.5 million blogs tracked by search engine Technorati Inc. are French, the company's chief executive officer David Sifry said at the conference. That figure may be under-reported, Sifry said, as some of the major French blog hosters do not automatically transmit notice of updates to Technorati. Sifry spoke of the positive feedback mechanisms inherent in the blogging community: Technorati statistics show that the more often bloggers write, the more their blogs are linked to, and so the higher their profile becomes, encouraging them to write more. The company indexes blogs by their content and the tags, or keywords, that their authors attribute to them. On Tuesday morning, "leweb3" was the second most-popular search term on the site.
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By Andrea Stone, USA TODAY JERUSALEM - Barbara and Moshe Journo left Lyons, France, with their 1-year-old daughter, Lital, four months ago to move into a cramped apartment at the Beit Canada Absorption Center ...
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France's ambassador to Israel criticized Israelis on Thursday for what he called "anti-French neurosis," drawing a rebuke from the Jewish state and touching off a new diplomatic row between the two countries.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier vowed a zero tolerance policy towards anti-semitism as he visited a memorial to French Jews killed in the Holocaust at the start of a fence-mending trip to Israel.
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Israel's foreign minister was expected in France on Tuesday to meet with top officials about how to stem a four-year wave of violence against French Jews that shows no signs of easing.
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The Israeli ambassador has criticised the French government for issuing a death certificate for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stating his place of birth as Jerusalem.
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A recent Paris conference on anti-Semitism drew senior French politicians and even one government minister - but the star of the show was the visitor who crossed the Atlantic especially for the occasion.