A campaign to add the Purim-play to UNESCO’s list of intangible culture has been launched by five Jewish organizations in Paris.Read More
The Yiddish Center Medem Biblyotek is conducting a series of lectures and exhibitions on the life of Abraham Sutzkever and a book on the Red Cross during the Holocaust is published.Read More
French Jewry celebrates Hanukkah despite a satirical article claiming Jews have been forbidden to light menorahs due to pollution concerns and an anti-Semitic gesture called the “quenelle” is becoming widespread in far-right political circles.Read More
Jewish and Muslim groups mobilize to oppose plans by the European Union to restrict circumcisions.Read More
The French President Francois Hollande will visit Israel and Palestine to try to negotiate an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Read More
The yearly “Jazz’N’Klezmer” festival is to be held in Paris.Read More
The Israeli cartoonist Yirmi Pinkus’s works are exhibited in France.Read More
The musical group Shpilkes plays a tribute-program based on the life of the writer Moishe Rozenbaumas, the grandfather of the group’s lead singer Eleonore Biezunski. who wrote about his life in a Yiddish memoir he translated into French.Read More
French Jewry observes the anniversary of the French government granting citizenship to Algerian Jews.Read More
French radio is producing a new weekly radio program about Yiddish called ‘Mishmash.’Read More