The Simon Wiesenthal Centre called on Acting Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme to remove Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck who voiced support for an initiative to give amnesty to the country’s Nazi collaborators during WWII and suggested that it may behoove the government to ''forget'' its Nazi past.
Over the weekend of May 6-9, the Chabad Lubavitch Ohr Avner Jewish Community Center in Perm hosted an inter-regional youth seminar entitled “Judaism - the Light of Friendship and Understanding.”
Responding to Palestinian PM's New York Times op-ed, PM says Palestinian leadership sees establishment of independent state as a way to continue the conflict with Israel, rather than end it.
Festivities linked to a pilgrimage that draws thousands of Jews every year to a Tunisia synagogue, reputedly the oldest in Africa, have been scaled down because of security fears, organizers said Monday.
US Jewish leaders expressed deep concern over the comments of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he commended those who attacked Israel – from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza – as well as those who participated in violent demonstrations, saying that “their blood was not spilled in vain” and that “they died for the Palestinian people’s rights and freedom.”
Russian and Ukrainian Jewish and Muslim leaders meet in Kiev to discuss rise in Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as part of month-long European efforts to heighten awareness and fight racism, extremism and discrimination.
IDF fears more violence following Sunday's clashes; Syrian man trying to enter Israel stopped in a taxi driven by East Jerusalem man at exit of Golan village of Majdal Shams.
Sweden's German-born Queen Silvia has begun an investigation into the nature of controversial ties between her father and the Nazi regime, the palace said Sunday.
