A UN report on the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship that killed nine Turks last year says that Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip was “legal and appropriate” but that Israel used “unreasonable force,” the New York Times reported.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that the European Union should decide en bloc whether and when to recognise the Palestinian Authority's bid for United Nations recognition as a state.

To the delight of people who appreciate Jewish books, a new book store has recently opened, along with an online shop.

Vandals have desecrated a memorial to to victims of a World War Two pogrom against Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, covering it with racist inscriptions and swastikas in green paint.

The UN report into the May 2010 lethal flotilla incident, to be published Friday, was obtained by the New York Times; among other findings it determines Gaza blockade legal.

A week-long youth seminar just ended in Kazan. Approximately 100 Jewish boys and girls from the Volga region are participated in the seminar.

Organizers of demonstration say PM is trying to split protesters by offering benefits only to students; Students' Union: We'll keep fighting.

The Israel Chamber Orchestra, set to perform in Bayreuth on Tuesday a work by Richard Wagner, the composer revered by the Nazis, are not on a ''political mission,'' director Roberto Paternostro said.

The Czech Republic has announced it would not take part in the September 22 United Nations conference on racism in New York dubbed Durban III.

The suspect in the twin attacks that killed 93 people in Norway was a member of a Swedish neo-Nazi Internet forum, a group monitoring extreme-right activity said Saturday.