An amendment to the new EU food information rules, calling for shechita, the kosher Jewish laughter of animals, to be singled out for specific labeling as “meat from slaughter without stunning,” was rejected by the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov signed Thursday several agreements for mutual cooperation during the first joint meeting of the two governments.
Bulgaria and Israel will hold a first joint session of their governments and sign a defence cooperation agreement on July 7 in Sofia, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's effort to seek United Nations recognition for a unilaterally declared state would far more likely end the peace process than the conflict. But don't count out the chance that European nations might support the idea even if it's not in their best interests, nor in the interest of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.
Full text of the opening remarks by Hannah Rosenthal, Special US Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, to the Second Annual European Jewish Press Conference, Brussels, June 20, 2011.
Students of the Nachas Educational Project marked the end of the study year. This special program is sponsored by the Shiurey Torah Foundation for middle-aged and elderly men who are considered “at risk.”
During the recent visit to Ukraine by Yossi Peled, a Minister without Portfolio in Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s government, he also visited the city of Zhitomir. During his trip, he toured the “Alyumim Children’s Educational Complex,” which is run by the Jewish community of Zhitomir and part of the Ohr Avner educational network.
