Laurent Fabius, 65, a veteran heavyweight of the French Socialist party, has been appointed Wednesday Foreign Minister in France’s new government under President Francois Hollande.
France’s new President Francois Hollande said he will work “to fight racism, anti-Semitism and all other forms of discrimination,” in a inauguration speech on Tuesday at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
Controversial new laws reduce number of officially recognized religious bodies, including three Jewish streams; ‘The danger is about Hungarian democracy, not about anti-Semitism,’ says Rabbi Istvan Darvas.
US President Barack Obama has secured an overwhelming mandate amongst US Jews, ahead of November’s presidential election, according to the findings of a new survey of the American Jewish opinion regarding the Obama administration and Israel by the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
The leader of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewry, said he is sure that President-elect Francois Hollande ''will take a strong stance against anti-Semitic acts in France.''
