Egypt sought to assuage concerns over the impact of its new Islamist government on its relations with Israel with the announcement of a new envoy Sunday.
The head of an umbrella organisation for Muslims in Germany on Monday rebuffed a call by a Jewish leader to do more to combat anti-Semitism after a rabbi was brutally attacked in Berlin.
A rabbi was the target of anti-Semitic insults by football fans in Vienna who greeted him with 'Move, Jew - Jews Out. Heil Hitler,' their armq raised in a Nazi salute.
The National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA), one of the leading Ukrainian universities, has traditionally begun with a lecture for all students, usually read by important scholars, writers, and public figures before they are awarded professor emeritus of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. This year, to the surprise and indignation of many, the man invited to address the students was Sergei Byelokon' – a Ukrainian historian, unfortunately famous not only for his archival studies, but for an anti-Semitic position openly voiced in his publications.
In his speech at the closing night of the Republican National Convention, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused his rival President Barack Obama of 'throwing allies like Israel under the bus.'
The rector of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, an academic seminary for rabbis, warned his students against wearing the kippah, or yarmulke, the traditional Jewish head covering, after a rabbi was beaten up in broad daylight earlier this week in Berlin.
The Russian-built 1,000 megawatt Bushehr plant is operating at full capacity after years of delays, Moscow says; UN inspectors do not view the plant as a major proliferation threat, instead focusing on enrichment
