Chief rabbi says French society has turned indifferent to anti-Semitism


  • World
  • Tuesday, 16 Sep 2014

PARIS, (Reuters) - France's government has reacted strongly to a rising tide of anti-Semitic acts this year but French society seems indifferent to the threat they present, the country's newly elected chief rabbi said on Tuesday.

Haim Korsia, who was elected in June, recalled the huge crowds that demonstrated in Paris in 1990 after a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in the southeastern town of Carpentras.

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