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In depth · What you probably didn’t knowA “first” in Trappes? Fourteen years earlier, three Jewish children were murdered in Toulouse
Gabriel, Arié and Myriam were killed in Toulouse in 2012. How do court judgments and public tributes bear on Macron’s remarks in Trappes in 2026?
NewsAntisemitism in Europe, 88 years after Kristallnacht: police meet in Berlin and France sets a date for debate
In Berlin, police chiefs met a survivor of the 1938 pogrom. In France, the Senate has put a bill on racism and antisemitism on its December agenda.
NewsIn Paris, historians revisit Raul Hilberg, from the printed page to the screen in Shoah
A Paris conference marking the centenary of Raul Hilberg’s birth examines how he revised his book and how he worked with filmmaker Claude Lanzmann.
In depth · What you probably didn’t knowThe world’s Jewish population stood at 15.8 million in 2025, below its 1939 level
In 2025, the world’s Jewish population remained smaller than in 1939. Where do those 15.8 million people live, and how do demographers count them?
NewsYonathan Arfi challenges Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pledge of a naval escort for Gaza flotillas
At Le Bourget, Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed a French naval escort for civilian flotillas bound for Gaza. On 8 November, the head of France’s Jewish representative council responded.