A fake anti-Semitic demonstration in Lviv on Wednesday was ugly and dangerous, not least because it highlighted the ease with which such stunts can be orchestrated and the inability of the authorities in a democratic country to intervene.
Often state committees dealing with such controversial and high-profile issues take a year or more to consider an issue and their conclusions are swept under the rug.
More than 30 members of the European Parliament support the appeal by the European Jewish Association (EJA) and its subsidiary organisations to the European Commission to establish an EU Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism on the model of what exists in the United States.
Groups cross broad spectrum of denominations and identities, ranging from secular groups promoting Jewish culture and values to Reform and Conservative congregations and institutions.
British Prime Minister David Cameron presented Monday his 5-year plan to tackle homegrown extremism and radicalism, and help communities integrate in Britain.
On July 18, 2013 a suicide bomber, a 24-year-old Lebanese-born man with dual French-Lebanese citizenship, Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, blew himself up on a passenger bus full of tourists which was parked at the airport.
For the first time in history, the 14th European Maccabi Games, Europe’s biggest Jewish sports event, will start next week in Berlin the place whereJewish athletes were excluded from the Olympic Games in 1936 by the Nazi regime.