Former businessman and oil tycoon has accused Putin of leading Russia into a 1970s Soviet-style period of stagnation that could eventually trigger its collapse.

The figures released this week by the Metropolitan Police listed 483 anti-Semitic hate crimes documented over the 12 months that preceded Nov. 1, 2015.

King Mohammed V kept the lives and property of the country’s Jews under his protection.

The new Argentinian leader Mauricio Macri will not appeal a court decision last year that voided a pact with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and wounded more than 300.

Amid increasing discrimination – and even violence – against Christian minorities across the Middle East, a small program in Israel is dramatically increasing the number of Christian-Arab Israelis who join the Israeli military, with the aim of integrating this minority population into mainstream Israeli society.

Two Israelis were killed and one other seriously wounded in a stabbing at the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday afternoon.

There are 200 plants in Russia, which have a certificate of Kosherity, the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Russia told Interfax-Religion on Wednesday.

Thousands of Jewish pupils across the former Soviet Union, pupils at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish schools, participated last week in the first stage of the 3rd annual ‘Darkeinu’ Olympic Jewish heritage quiz for 2015.

Delivering a speech in the Knesset, the Ukrainian President thanked Jews and Jewish organizations in Ukraine for their contribution to the protection of sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Turkey has expelled a senior Hamas official as a step towards an agreement to normalise relations with Israel but the deal reportedly remains some way from being finalised.