No fancy word can cover what happened to Halimi. She was murdered. An identifiably Orthodox Jewish woman, she was killed by a Muslim immigrant in a shocking crime. First Sarah Halimi was thrown out of ...

"This decision... potentially creates a precedent for all hate criminals to simply claim insanity – or decide to smoke, snort or inject drugs, or even get drunk, before committing their crimes." The ...

Singer Lindita Halimi once weighed 250 lbs. Now, she is half her size, thanks to a low-carb diet and lots of weight training. Lindita Halimi grew up during the war in Kosovo, so eating was an act of ...

(JTA) — Lawyers for the family of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman whose killer was deemed unfit to stand trial in France, say they want to have him tried in Israel. The idea articulated Wednesday in a ...

Three French films are now in production based on the murder of Ilan Halimi, who was killed in 2006 following 24 days of torture and captivity in a Paris suburb. SAINTE-GENEVIEVE-DES-BOIS, France (JTA ...

The leader of the gang responsible for torturing and murdering a French Jew received the maximum sentence for a crime judges ruled anti-Semitic. Youssouf Fofana was sentenced Friday to life in prison ...

The ruling came on Feb. 13 — seven years to the day of the death of Halimi, a 23-year-old French Jew. Fofana’s gang kidnapped Halimi and held him for ransom, then tortured him for three weeks before ...

A picture of Ilan Halimi is seen at a makeshift memorial, on February 13, 2019 in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, after a ceremony in his tribute, two days after two trees planted in memory of the ...

Serge Halimi is a member of Le Monde diplomatique’s editorial team. Netanyahu says Israel is fighting a “shared war” to defend Western values. In France, as elsewhere, it’s a message that has found ...