France is home to about 475,000 Jews, the world's third-largest Jewish population. Yet its Jews are increasingly fearful of anti-Semitic violence. In late January, someone in Marseille attacked a French Jewish man with a machete, seemingly solely for the crime of wearing a kippah (Jewish skullcap). The New York Times called the attack part of "a particular strain of anti-Semitism that has left many French Jews deeply unnerved."
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