The French Jewish community has not escaped the danger that Jewish youth, particularly in the provinces, is being lost to the community through the process of assimilation. Baron Alain de Rothschild, president of the French Jewish Consistory, the central religious organization of French Jewry, presided at a meeting of French Jewish leaders to consider the problem and measures to deal with it.
The French-Jewish community has more than doubled in size since World War II, chiefly through immigration from North Africa. It is now estimated to be more than 500,000.
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