Shabbat Times in Paris

Paris has two Jewish faces to visit: the lanes of the Pletzl in the Marais, and the monumental synagogue on rue de la Victoire.

The Pletzl, in the 4th arrondissement, is the historic Jewish quarter; the name is Yiddish for “little square.” French Wikipedia dates the district to the 13th century, and from 1881 tens of thousands of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe settled there. On 16 July 1942, in the Vél d'Hiv roundup, police arrested children and teachers at the école des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais; 165 children died in the extermination camps. Rue des Rosiers still has synagogues and kosher restaurants. In the 9th arrondissement, the Great Synagogue of Paris on rue de la Victoire was begun in 1867 and opened for worship in 1875. It seats 1,800 and is the seat of the Chief Rabbi of Paris; Alfred Dreyfus was married there in 1890. Independent congregations round out the picture, such as Adath Israël in the 11th, a Nusach Sefard shtibel that became a synagogue in the 1980s and has its own mikveh.

Sources: La Victoire, official site · Wikipedia: Great Synagogue of Paris (in French) · Wikipedia: Pletzl (in French) · Adath Israël (in French) · Chabad.org: candle-lighting times (in French) · Hebcal: candle lighting and Havdalah times · Consistoire de Paris (in French)