For over two centuries, CASIP-COJASOR has stood as a beacon of Jewish solidarity in France, through wars, exile, and rebirth. Created with decisive support from the American Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint) in the aftermath of the Shoah, the COJASOR became the foundation on which today’s CASIP-COJASOR was built, a living heir to the Joint’s postwar mission and a modern innovator in care, housing, and social resilience.
Today, CASIP-COJASOR is not just preserving history. It is transforming it into action by building dignity, inclusion, and resilience at a moment when antisemitism in France has reached levels unseen since the 1960s.
1 in 3 European Jews lives in France
CASIP-COJASOR, the central pillar preventing isolation, fragmentation, and identity erosion where Jewish life faces new threats.
200 years of archives, Europe’s most extensive Jewish social record
12 major centers in France: nursing homes, social and trauma support units & shelters
30,000 people supported every year, including 1150 holocaust survivors
550 staff members, and volunteers.
Europe’s largest Jewish social-services networks engaging across generations
Recognized as a public utility since 1887, the Casip-Cojasor Foundation supports 30,000 people in all the challenges of life: families, retirees and the elderly, isolated people, people with disabilities, early childhood. It offers support in all areas of social and medico-social action: food, housing, health, work, clothing, social. Created by Napoleonic decree in 1809, the Foundation has 550 employees, all professionals in the social and medico-social sector, and its 30 services and establishments. She has worked daily for more than 215 years to help everyone overcome their difficulties and find solutions to the social problems they face.