A Russian Jewish group has decried Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko's decision to honor the head of a Ukrainian wartime nationalist leader.

The Great Choral Synagogue of S. Petersburg has published the book "Jewish Tradition: Burial, Mourning and Remembrance."

In an interview published onan Italian Catholic website, the retired Polish Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek has accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust for propaganda purposes.

Last night, two weeks after the IDF rushed to Haiti with hundreds of doctors to help treat those wounded in the devastating earthquake, the field hospital which it had opened - and which came to symbolize the exceptional Israeli rescue effort - finally closed its doors.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's humiliation of the Turkish ambassador earlier this month seriously offended Turkey, but also made it clear to Ankara that it had crossed red lines in its relationship with Israel, according to a report on Israel-Turkey relations prepared by the Foreign Ministry.

Israel is likely to tell the United Nations that it will agree to the appointment of a committee tasked with focusing on a few issues related to last year's military operation in the Gaza Strip.

Orthodox marriages may be happier than their secular counterparts, but religious unions are rocky enough to concern a team of researchers and rabbis who presented the results of their recent study on marital satisfaction at the Orthodox Union.

The Russian Orthodox Church in the former Soviet republic of Moldova has indirectly blamed the Jewish community for the recent anti-Semitic march by Christian fundamentalists in the capital Chisinau in which a public menorah was dismantled.

The world must stop new attempts to destroy the State of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Monday.

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, head of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, was questioned by police on Monday after six of his students were arrested for possible involvement in the arson attack on a West Bank mosque on December 11, 2009.