FUTURE OF JEWISH
France’s Jews are leaving en masse — again.
Melissa Brodsky
May 16, 2026

…France has a Holocaust memorial, as well as official days of remembrance. French politicians give speeches about never again. The Republic has a full suite of laws against hate speech and incitement. And yet, France’s Jews are leaving. They’re leaving — steadily, family by family, year by year — in numbers that have alarmed Israeli officials, French Jewish community organizations, and demographers who track these things…France has the largest Jewish population in Europe and the third-largest in the world, behind Israel and the United States. Jews represent less than one percent of the French population. READ MORE