Why some French Jewish parents are taking their kids out of public schools

When her 7-year-old son, Noah, came home from school with a black eye, Virginie Selem decided she had finally had enough. “He told me someone at school had called him a dirty Jew,” says Selem, a mother of three living in Alfortville, a middle-class suburb southeast of Paris. Selem describes her family as not especially religious,…