For the last two years, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, has compiled a list of the top ten anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slurs.
Further economic sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program will only delay this country in its efforts to build a nuclear bomb but it will not stop it, Avi Dichter, a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, said Tuesday.
A proposal bill to ban shechita, the Jewish kosher slaughter of animals, in Holland, was rejected late Tuesday by the Dutch Senate, the upper house of the Parliament, on the ground that it violates freedom of religion.
Right-wing activists slash police-car tires, smash windows following attempt to arrest suspects following the arson of a historically significant mosque in the capital.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met Tuesday evening with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris after symbolically hoisting the Palestinian flag at the headquarters of UNESCO, at a ceremony marking Palestine’s admission to the UN cultural and education body.
As Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Light, approaches, a Brussels-based organization BASSAD has distributed more than 50,000 kits that include menorahs, candles and explanation brochures in 8 languages to 32 European Jewish communities.