Hundreds of Holocaust-era mass graves are scattered around Eastern Europe, scholars said Friday, urging authorities to protect them as they owed it to victims of World War II atrocities.
The Governing Board of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has confirmed Daniel Diker, 50, as the new secretary general of the international umbrella organization representing Jewish communities in 92 countries.
Serbian President Boris Tadic on Sunday attended a memorial for the tens of thousands of mainly Serbs and Jews killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustase regime during World War II.
On June 22, 2011 in the west Siberian city of Tomsk, a ceremony for welcoming a Torah scroll into the Tomsk synagogue took place for the first time in 80 years.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder tells meeting of Jewish parliamentarians in Jerusalem Israel must try to regain international support to prevent unilateral declaration of Palestinian state in September.
Survivors and descendants of Jews killed during the Iasi pogrom in Romania on Tuesday attended ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of one of the worst single Holocaust massacres.
The White Russians were kosher, character costumes were topped off with yarmulkes, and participants were most certainly not rolling on Shabbos at Israel's first ever Big Lebowski festival.
Two ships from Sweden and Greece sabotaged over last two days; organizer Manolis Plionis says damage 'won't stop us from sailing,' believes both ships will participate in flotilla.
