The haredi Orthodox owner of the Sea Secret fashion label expects the ban in France to greatly increase her niche product's exposure. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — According to the latest tally, at least 30 ...

PARIS — France’s top administrative court ruled Tuesday against allowing body-covering “burkini” swimwear in public pools for religious reasons, arguing that it violates the principle of government ...

HOD HASHARON, Israel — One of the most jarring images of the summer was of French police demanding that a Muslim woman on a beach in Nice remove parts of her full-bodied swimsuit, known as a burkini.

HOD HASHARON, Israel (AP) - France's burkini controversy is boosting the bottom line for Israeli makers of modest women's swimwear. The country, home to large populations of conservative Jewish and ...

Britons favour banning of the Islamic veil or burqa by an overwhelming majority of more than two-to-one, a recent UK poll, commissioned in the aftermath of banning of burkini swimwear on a number of ...

According to the latest tally, at least 30 French municipalities have banned the product that the Paris-born businesswoman Yardena G. sells for a living. Yardena, a haredi Orthodox mother of nine from ...

I’ve always loved to swim. And yet it’s rare to find me in the water on a hot summer day. A picnic at the beach or a poolside BBQ has always posed a major dilemma: What do I wear? As a practicing ...

Yes, the burkini—a portmanteau for burqa, a robe-like garment popular with some Muslim women, and bikini, a two-piece bathing suit that made its debut 70 years ago at the fashionable Parisian lido ...

Burkini bathing suits sound like a costume straight out of Sex and the City 2, but thanks to U.K.-based retailers like Marks and Spencer, they are indeed real, though the reaction has been pretty ...

Halima Aden, a Somali American and Muslim model, is the first woman to pose in a burkini for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, which hits newsstands Wednesday. "Growing up in the States, I never ...