"It's in the DNA of the republic to stay away from anything religious," said Yonathan Arfi, President of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF).
Far-left heavyweight Manuel Bompard said that Macron had made an unforgivable political mistake, while Green party deputy Sandrine Rousseau said it would have been possible to support France's Jewish community without allowing a religious ceremony into the Elysee.
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