This year’s Genesis Prize, dubbed the ‘’Jewish Nobel’’, has been awarded to Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman for his accomplishments as a musician, teacher and advocate for the disabled.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that he is postponing his scheduled trip to Israel and his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Jewish community in Geneva was warned to be ''extremely vigilant’’ as the city went on high alert after police search four men with suspected links to the Isis (Daesh) terror group.
CRIF, the umbrella representative body of Jewish organisations in France, welcomed Sunday’s French regional runoff elections which saw the extreme right Front National of Marine Le Pen failing to win any regional presidency.
“Light is the only thing that can chase away darkness when it needs to be chased away, “ said European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans in remarks made at an event to celebrate Chanukah, the Jewish holiday of Lights, under his patronage at the Commission premises in Brussels.