The Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) has called for "a Jewish response" to the murder on Monday of four people, including three children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Witnesses said a man opened fire on people waiting at a school drop-off point and then fled on a scooter near the Ozar Hatorah school.
"This act of barbarity and murder will be met with a Jewish response," Rabbi Aryeh Goldberg, Deputy Director of the RCE said. "We will bury the dead, look after the injured, and we will demand justice is pursued through the appropriate channels."
He added: "This attack is an attack on the whole Jewish community; we feel the pain of the families who have lost loved ones and as a community we will show our reaction. If there are people who want to scare the Jewish community into submission, our response will be to show them that we will not be bowed, the opposite is true. We will build more schools, synagogues and other Jewish institutions."
"The RCE will assist in any way possible, this is the Jewish response."
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe is an organization dedicated to meeting the religious and spiritual needs of communities in Europe.