Prime minister makes address to Congress despite opposition from the White House; says days are over when Jews remain passive in face of genocidal enemy.
Herzog says Netanyahu widened the rift with Washington while doing little to stop Iran's nuclear program; Gal-On says Netanyahu ''irrelevant'' on Iran issue.
CRIF, the umbrella representative group of the French Jewish community has called on its ''American friends'' to fight against the dissemination of Jew-hatred on the internet, in an appeal published in the New York Times.
According to France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls the anti-Israel and anti-Zionist sentiments spreading in the French society have all the necessary elements to be considered as anti-Semitism.
A group of Muslims in the Belgian southern town of Arlon decided to appeal for donations and human support to help refurbish the local synagogue, the oldest in the country, which is in poor condition.
For the first time, an official body of the European Parliament dealt with the issue of rising anti-Semitism in Europe and the need to make the fight against this phenomenon a priority.
