CRIF MEETS LEFT WING UNIONS OF MAGISTRATES AND TEACHERS

The meeting was important due to the current situation in France where several recent decisions in cases involving anti-Semitic attacks or abuse seemed exceptionally lenient in the eyes of the Jewish leaders.

"The meting went well," said Aida Chouk. "We didn't change our positions. It is the CRIF's right to criticize the Courts' decisions but the issue of anti-Semitism is a real one, a very large one, and one cannot solve it by simple legal decisions."

Roger Cukierman and a delegation of CRIF also met leaders of a radical left wing union of teachers, the FSU. "We raised several problematic issues of the schooling system and we also reviewed the possible co-operation between CRIF and the union," said Cukierman.

The two meetings were in line with a series of encounters with all parts of the French civil society.