A BBC programme to be broadcast during Pesach will compare the increase in French Jews emigrating to Britain with the exodus from Egypt.

The programme, Never Again: Fear and Faith in Paris will centre around St John’s Wood Synagogue in north-west London, which has hosted a separate service in French on every Shabbat since 2013.

The BBC claimed one British synagogue had seen its congregation become 90 per cent French in the past few years.

Due to be shown on BBC One on April 26, the documentary will look into “the decision of 8,000 Jews to leave France in 2014, concerned about the recent terror attacks and rising antisemitism in the country”.

It also features Rudi Leavor of Bradford Synagogue, which appointed a Muslim to its executive board last year.