European leaders are focusing too much attention on the Roma policy of French President Nicolas Sarkozy while ignoring ''blatant anti-Roma discrimination'' in Eastern Europe, a Jewish group warned after an EU official recently compared France’s Roma to Jews deported in WWII.

Four New York men were convicted of plotting to blow up synagogues and shoot down US military aircraft after a trial hinging on the testimony of a paid FBI informant, the federal prosecutor's office said.

The British news agency Press Association has apologized after several regional newspapers mistakingly used one of its picture of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to illustrate a story about a rail protest in Wales.

Jewish leaders, decision makers and thinkers from around the world gather in Jerusalem on Wednesday for a three-day conference with the goal of fashioning a strategic perspective for the Jewish People in light of the threats, challenges and opportunities.

Only 56 of 120 MKs say they support the bill requiring Jews and non-Jews alike to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; Justice Minister: I'll quit if loyalty oath applies only to non-Jews.

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin ''must not be forgiven or forgotten,'' Israeli President Shimon Peres said at a candlelighting ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.

The Jewish community in the Northwest district of Moscow now has its own Jewish community center.

Last week in Minsk, the city hosted a conference of rabbis of Belarus. The conference included Rabbi David Mondshine, the Director of the Ohr Avner Foundation, who travelled from Moscow especially for the gathering.

Jewish leaders from Barnaul, the capital of the Altai Krai, met with the city’s acting mayor, Igor Savintsev. The community was represented by Chief Rabbi of the Altai Krai Yisroel Noach Kamenetsky and chairman of the Jewish community of Barnaul, Mr. Vitaly Shatkov.