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Suspected Merah accomplices arrested in Toulouse
Two men suspected of being accomplices of Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah were arrested near Toulouse.
Global anti-Semitism grew by 30 percent in 2012, report finds
Global anti-Semitism increased by 30 percent in 2012 over the previous year, an annual report found.
Three men linked to Mohamed Merah arrested in France
Three men believed to be linked to Mohamed Merah were arrested in southern France.
Film suggests Toulouse killer was disturbed, not hateful
Four weeks before he murdered seven people in Toulouse, a cheerful Mohammed Merah was filmed laughing and showing off his skiing skills to friends at a popular Alpine resort.
Two arrested on suspicion they aided Toulouse killer Merah
French police arrested two men on suspicion that they helped Mohammed Merah in two killing sprees in the Toulouse area last year, including at a Jewish school.
Knife-wielding woman arrested outside Toulouse Jewish school
A knife-wielding woman was arrested after threatening a student of the Toulouse Jewish school where an Islamist radical murdered four people nearly a year ago.
Couple suspected of aiding Toulouse killer Merah taken into custody
A man and a woman in the Toulouse area were arrested on suspicion that they helped Mohammed Merah "commit crimes" that may have included the murder of four Jews.
In Europe, big gaps exist among security precautions at Jewish institutions
Within hours of Israel's assassination of a top Hamas commander, the situation room sprang into action, anticipating retaliatory attacks and preparing instructions to keep civilians out of harm's way.
Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah was raised to be anti-Semite, brother writes
Mohammed Merah was raised to be an anti-Semite long before he killed four Jews in Toulouse, Merah's brother wrote.
France’s Hollande ripped Netanyahu, French satirical weekly reports
French President Francois Hollande said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “turned a memorial service in Toulouse into an election rally,” a French satirical newspaper reported. The weekly Le Canard Enchaine published an unsigned article that said Hollande made the comment last week while flying to Beirut. The item was referring to a visit that Netanyahu made with Hollande to the Jewish school in Toulouse where Mohammed Merah, a radical French Islamist, killed three children and a rabbi in March.
Victims’ families demand inquiry into Toulouse murders
The families of the victims of Mohammed Merah have called for a parliamentary inquiry into failures that allowed him to murder four Jews and three French soldiers in the Toulouse area.
At Toulouse, French president vows to fight anti-Semitism
France will clamp down on anti-Semitic hate speech online and elsewhere, French President Francois Hollande said at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
French Jewish leaders ‘outraged’ by mosque desecration near Toulouse
French Jewish leaders are calling the tossing of two pig heads into a mosque not far from Toulouse "an odious desecration."
Jewish life in France: Progress amid ongoing concerns
On March 19, Mohamed Merah, 23, attacked the Ozar HaTorah school in Toulouse in southern France, killing three students and a rabbi.
Families of Toulouse victims seek gag order on leaked recordings
Relatives of the victims of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah will seek to prevent the media from broadcasting recordings of the late French Muslim gunman.
Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah’s father suing police
The father of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah reportedly is suing police for allegedly murdering his son.
Toulouse massacre encouraged more French anti-Semitic attacks, report says
The recent massacre at a Jewish school in Toulouse "triggered an explosion” in anti-Semitic attacks across France, according to the French Jewish community's protection service
When killers target kids
On July 22, 2011, 33-year-old Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya in Norway. On March 19, 2012, 23-year-old Mohammed Merah shot and killed a teacher and three young children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
French voters moving on from Toulouse, but Jews can’t let it go
A new nIf Isaac Sitrin is worried about being targeted by Jew-hating thugs, then he is hiding it well. After determining that a fellow train passenger is Jewish and willing to lay tefillin, he ushers the passenger to the center of Gare du Nord train station. Praying aloud, Sitrin performs the ritual ceremony as his wife and daughters wait nearby.
L.A.'s Muslims, Jews must join against hate
To say that the past weeks have been unsettling for Muslims and Jews would be an understatement. The point-blank murder of Jewish schoolchildren and their teacher in Toulouse, France, can only be described as chilling and ruthless. The killer did not limit his hatred to Jews. His wrath also targeted Muslims in military uniform serving their country.
France arrests more suspected Islamic militants
Ten suspected Islamic militants were arrested in France in the second mass arrest there in recent days.
Reflecting on the Toulouse murders
Addressing an audience of more than a thousand expatriate Iranians in Paris last Saturday, former Attorney General Michael Musasey praised the Iranian Resistance’s leader Maryam Radjavi, a known Muslim political leader, for having “opened the session by extending her sympathy to the Jewish community of Toulouse” over the violent killing of three schoolchildren and a rabbi last week in the city.
N.Y. police beefing up security ahead of Passover
The New York Police Department is increasing its security at synagogues and Jewish sites for Passover.
French Islamic militants planned to kidnap Jewish judge
Suspected Islamic militants arrested throughout France were planning terrorist attacks including kidnapping a Jewish judge.
France arrests suspected Islamic militants
Police commandos arrested 19 suspected Islamic militants in raids on Friday in several French cities including Toulouse, where seven people were killed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman this month.
Arrests in France, Sarkozy compares shooting trauma to 9/11
Following a sweep of arrests of suspected Islamic militants, French President Nicolas Sarkozy compared the fatal attack outside a Jewish school in Toulouse to the trauma of 9/11.
Algeria reportedly refuses body of Toulouse gunman
The body of the gunman who killed three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse will be buried in France rather than Algeria as his father had requested.
Again
Many, many years ago I sat down at my computer and decided to write a fictional story about what would happen if “Never Again!” became “Again.”
French lawmakers pay condolence calls in Jerusalem
A delegation of French political leaders visiting Israel paid condolence calls to the families of the children and rabbi killed in the attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse.
After Toulouse attack, French Jews are reconsidering Sarkozy
With the first round of France's presidential election less than four weeks away, the attacks that left four Jews and three French soldiers dead are reshaping the race -- but for now it’s not clear exactly how.
Al Jazeera says won’t air French gunman video
Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday it would not broadcast video footage of three deadly shootings in southern France filmed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman using a camera strapped to his body.
Sarkozy to networks: Don’t broadcast Merah footage
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on television networks not to broadcast video footage shot by Mohammed Merah during his attacks on soldiers and on a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Footage filmed by French gunman sent to Al Jazeera says police source
Video footage filmed by the French gunman Mohamed Merah during his bloody shooting spree has been sent to the Al Jazeera television network in Paris, a police source said on Monday.
Strengthening Muslim-Jewish ties in the face of evil
As a rabbi and an imam, we deeply mourn the tragic loss of innocent lives in the murderous terrorist attacks in France. We express our heartfelt sympathy and compassion for the bereaved.
Israel confirms visit by Mohammed Merah
Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah visited Israel in late 2010, Israeli officials said.
March 23, 2012
Homeland Security official briefs Jewish leaders after Toulouse
A top Homeland Security official briefed Jewish groups in the wake of the deadly attack in Toulouse, France.
Toulouse killer visited Israel, other countries in the region
The passport of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah showed that he visited Israel, Syria, Iraq and Jordan, a French newspaper reported.
Shootings upend French election, Sarkozy gains
The shootings of French soldiers and Jewish schoolchildren by a home-grown Islamist gunman killed by police have upended France's election campaign and resurrected conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's prospects.
Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends
A 23-year-old gunman who said al Qaeda inspired him to kill seven people in France died in a hail of bullets on Thursday as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gunbattle with elite police commandos.
French police seek to intimidate gunman with blasts
Three blasts at the building were the suspect in seven shootings in southwest France is holed up were intended to intimidate him and there has not been an assault to get him out of his apartment, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Toulouse, France
French shooting suspect not jailed in Afghanistan, provincial governor says
An Afghan provincial governor on Wednesday denied statements by a senior prison official that French school shooting suspect Mohamed Merah was jailed for bombings in Afghanistan in 2007 and escaped months later.
Road to radicalization from Toulouse to Kandahar
For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalization ran from Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Investigator: French gunman planned to kill soldier, policemen
A gunman suspected of killing seven people in southwest France in the name of al Qaeda had planned to kill another soldier and two police officials before he was surrounded by police in an early morning raid on Wednesday, an investigator said.
Toulouse shooting suspect’s standoff continues [VIDEO]
The standoff in France between police and Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, stretched into its 13th hour Wednesday.
Muslims and Jews Speak about the Terror in Toulouse
Tears flow amidst a determination for democracy
The Jewish community in New York gathered for a memorial service at the Consulate of France Tuesday afternoon. The well-attended service was organized by Rabbis Joseph Potasnik and Avi Weiss. Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Senior Rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue, offered the comfort of psalm and prayer.
The day after and the Jewish community remains open for business
The breaking news from France yesterday morning was tragic. Just after 8:00 a.m., a lone assailant on a motorcycle pulled up in front of the Ozar Hatorah School in a quiet neighborhood in the eastern part of Toulouse and opened fire with two high-powered handguns.
French Jews look for answers, search for security, in school shooting
Neo-Nazi soldiers eliminated as suspects in Toulouse attack
Three former French soldiers who were believed to be involved in the shooting attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse were questioned and released by French police.
Toulouse attack stuns French Jewish community
When Arié Bensemhoun, a Jewish community leader in Toulouse, woke up on March 20, he thought for a moment that the horrific shooting of three children and a rabbi at a local Jewish school might just have been a bad dream.
Israeli leaders condemn remarks by EU’s Ashton
Israeli leaders condemned remarks by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton which appeared to compare the Toulouse victims to deaths in Gaza, while Ashton said her words were "grossly distorted."
Toulouse victims to be buried in Israel
The four victims of the attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse will be buried in Israel. The bodies will be flown from Toulouse to Paris by the French Air Force and then will be flown by El Al to Israel.
Thousands march in memory of Toulouse victims
Thousands silently demonstrated Monday evening in Paris to pay tribute to the four victims of a shooting attack at a Jewish school in southwestern France.
New York City police tighten security at Jewish sites
New York police ramped up security at synagogues and other Jewish institutions citywide on Monday following the deadly attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Sarkozy: Gunman in French shootings driven by racism [VIDEO]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the same gunman who shot dead a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday was also responsible for the killing of three soldiers last week, apparently motivated by racism.
After Toulouse attack, Sarkozy suspends campaign and Jews warn of rising anti-Semitism
The attack by an unidentified gunman on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France was condemned by Jewish leaders, who also warned against the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe.
Security group asks U.S. Jewish groups to be on alert
The security arm of the U.S. Jewish federations asked Jewish officials to remain vigilant in the wake of a deadly attack on a French Jewish school, citing the possibility of copycat attacks.
Four killed in shooting at French Jewish school
Four people -- a teacher and three students -- were shot dead outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, officials said.
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