[Read more about the Strasbourg attack here.] The Alsace region, bordering Germany, was once home to a significant Jewish population, and has been no stranger to anti-Semitic acts in recent years. In the month after the attack on the Paris supermarket in 2015, teenage vandals overturned as many as 250 Jewish gravestones in Saverne. In Herrlisheim, which has only a small Jewish community remaining, the Jewish cemetery has been vandalized several times over the years. Some French Jews, feeling unsafe, have moved to Israel.

Source: New York Times December 14, 2018 15:56 UTC