550 Palestinian prisoners released two months after first stage of deal; overall, Israel freed 1,027 Palestinians in exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Researchers find no calls for violence against Israel in PA-issued textbooks, but note that Jewish presence in region rarely mentioned; Palestinians: Our books legitimately focus on life under occupation.
Police in Rome have arrested five Italian neo-fascists belonging to the ''Militia'' movement on harges of plotting violence against the Rome Jewish community.
Trnout in the second round of Egypt’s parliamentary election reached 67 percent, according to Abdul Moez Ibrahim, the head of the supreme election committee. Ibrahim was speaking at a news conference on Sunday.
With persistent double-digit unemployment and a new recession looming in Hungary, one might expect the “Movement for a Better Hungary” to be encouraging job-producing foreign investment. But the ultra-nationalist party, better known as Jobbik, has higher priorities.
An Amsterdam apartment where Jewish teenager Anne Frank and her family lived for nine years before going into hiding due to the Nazi occupation opened last Saturday, a spokesman for its owner said.
At Union for Reform Judaism conference near Washington, Defense Minister says supports formation of viable, democratic Palestinian state through direct peace talks with Israel.
The Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE) said it was ''astounded'' by calls for the resignation of US Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, following controversial statements he made on the roots of anti-Semitism in Europe at a recent conference in Brussels.
On December 12, Jewish inmates and Jewish community leaders participated in the opening ceremony for a synagogue, newly opened at the corrections facility 7 (otherwise known as Yablonevka) in S. Petersburg.
