On January 27, the synagogue in the Yekaterinburg JCC hosted a memorial ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

January 27 is officially acknowledged in Estonia as Holocaust Remembrance Day, as in numerous other countries. On that morning, Jews and guests gathered for a commemoration ceremony near the memorial complex established on the site of the former Klooga concentration camp. In the Klooga camp, the Nazis and local collaborators killed nearly 2,000 Jews.

Army enters city streets and night curfew implemented after protestors break through police lines, called for ousting of President Mubarak.

Egypt's interior ministry warned of ''decisive measures'' as dissidents planned to rally after Friday noon prayers for a fourth day in a row in the country's most serious anti-government protests in decades.

Incident comes only a day after police confirmed Palestinian reports saying that a Palestinian youth was shot to death by an unidentified Israeli citizen.

An anti-Israel Turkish movie filmed in part aboard the intercepted flotilla ship the Marmara will not open in Germany as scheduled.

A group of American rabbis is calling on Fox News to sanction personality Glenn Beck for ''his completely unacceptable attacks'' on Holocaust survivor George Soros.

President Obama, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, pledged to combat the ''scourge of anti-Semitism'' and other bigotries.

Turkey held its first state ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

As protests in Egypt entered a third day, demonstrators in Yemen reportedly inspired by the unrest there and earlier in Tunisia took to the streets to demand a new government.