German prosecutors have launched a probe into a 91-year-old man suspected of taking part in a 1942 massacre of over 300 Jews from the Zhytomyr ghetto in Ukraine, a local daily reported Monday.
Passionate about discovering their Jewish connection, more than 60 Jewish youngsters from 23 different locations in the CIS participated in an amazing two-week seminar packed with attractions and lectures.
The inauguration ceremony of a new Torah scroll, donated to the Jewish Community of Baku, Azerbaijan, turned into a significant event attended by the Ambassadors of the USA and Israel and heads of communities.
Some 40 European rabbis met in Berlin on Tuesday to protest a ban on circumcision, with the group's president calling it ''one of the gravest attacks on Jewish life'' since the Holocaust.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu questioned Europe’s ''disproportionate'' treatment of Israel, during EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s ''milestone'' first visit to the Jewish State on Monday.
A Frenchman of Algerian descent, Merah shocked France when he killed three soldiers in Mautauban and four Jewish people at a Jewish school in Toulouse between March 11 and 19.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls spoke of his concerns at a “new breed of anti-Semitism in our neighourhoods, in our suburbs”, the day after the two suspects in the case of an attack on a Jewish youth in Lyon were detained.
t’s hard to find anyone who has done as much for the Jewish community as Sheldon Adelson, Alan Dershowitz writes, following Nat'l Jewish Democratic Council's call to stop accepting donations from Adelson.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on Sunday for a return to Israeli-Palestinian talks, warning the peace process must not become ''an orphan of the Arab Spring.''
