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Among the newspapers published by French Jewish youth organizations, the monthly Chalom was a real informational review, unlike the plain bulletins published by other youth organizations. This paper first compares this newspaper to the periodicals of other associations such as Chema Israel, Liberal Jewish Youth, and Jewish Youth before examining Chalom, the newspaper of the Universal Union of Jewish Youth (UUJJ), which dealt mainly with peace and the defense of the rights of Jews in the countries where they lived. However, as a result of attempts by its president and chief editor Aimé Pallière to induce a Zionist impulse from 1926 and because of its inability to welcome young Jewish immigrants in Paris, the number of members of the Paris section of the UUJJ fell rapidly, However, Chalom was read all over the world and was seen as giving useful advice on a wide variety of topics. From Paris, the UUJJ leaders, who are also the editors of Chalom, informed foreign readers of the worsening of the political situation of Jews in Europe and tried to alert their fellow Jews to the oncoming threats mounting against them, and this without the support of French Judaism.