The row has now reached the Council of State, which has previously ruled against a burkini ban elsewhere in France. Critics of the burkini see it as offering a separatist vision of French society ...

(JTA) — A senior Paris rabbi defended a string of controversial municipal bans in France on wearing the full-body swimsuit known as a burkini in public. Moshe Sebbag of the Grand Synagogue told ...

But the burkini remains controversial in France, where authorities in several French towns have proposed banning the garment altogether. In 2010, France became the first European country to ban ...

The furore over it reached a peak in the summer of 2016, when many towns and cities in France, starting with Cannes, banned the burkini and arrested or fined those it deemed to have broken the bans.

The Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, will rule on the legality of burkini bans in coming days. France's prime minister, Manuel Valls, however on Wednesday said he opposed the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Protestors gathered outside the French embassy in London calling for a repeal of the laws banning burkini swimsuits. The demonstration came as London mayor Sadiq ...

This has renewed the debate over the banning of the burkini by dozens of French towns and villages, mostly in the south of France.

The furore over it reached a peak in the summer of 2016, when many towns and cities in France, starting with Cannes, banned the burkini and arrested or fined those it deemed to have broken the bans.