In the north-east Ukrainian city of Sumy, the local Jewish community hosted a conference involving numerous ethnic and cultural groups from the region.
Last week in Moscow, rabbinical students of the yeshiva at the Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue took their final exams. In all, 22 young men received their Rabbinic ordination as well as certification as shochtim (ritual slaughterers).
The US administration is quietly pressuring the Palestinians to come to the negotiating table, according to an influential American Jewish leader and longtime supporter of US President Barack Obama.
A Russian arms export official said on Wednesday the delivery of its S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Iran had been delayed because of technical problems but would go ahead, Interfax news agency reported.
The Zionist Organization of America is calling on Jewish students not to apply to the University of California, Irvine because it does not condemn campus anti-Semitism.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said that there was no proof Israel's Mossad spy agency was behind the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, after it emerged that some members of the hit squad involved in the killing had used the identities of foreign-born Israelis.
