anti-semitic Archives – Jewish Journal

Just One Voice

Rob Eshman October 21, 2004

It\’s nice to honor Righteous Gentiles when they\’re dead. It\’s even nicer to acknowledge them while they\’re still alive.

Danger Ahead for Europe’s Jews

James D. Besser February 6, 2003

State Department officials in recent weeks have quietly urged their European counterparts to take preemptive action to prevent new
anti-Semitic attacks in the wake of a United States-led military action against Iraq.

Anti-Semitism Hits France

Andrew Diamond April 4, 2002

A fresh outburst of anti-Semitic violence throughout France has Jewish leaders fearing the return of Kristallnacht.

The reference to the horrors of Nazi Germany, issued by French Jewish leader Jean Kahn, hit the French dailies, as police in Marseille were still investigating a fire that reduced a synagogue to ashes.

The incident punctuated a weekend of anti-Jewish aggression that included attacks on synagogues in Lyon and Strasbourg and a shooting at a kosher butcher shop near the southwestern city of Toulouse in which no one was injured.

In addition, a French Jewish couple was injured in a weekend attack in the southern part of the country.