The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland told the Conference of European Rabbis in Berlin that his oganization will not pursue measures to ban religious circumcision despite the vote last month by the body’s parliamentary assembly of a report which criticised the practice.

Norway's Children Ombudswoman Anne Lindboe's call to ban non-medical circumcision of minors in her country, as it is a violation of human rights, ‘’is charlatan and is not supported by any scientific facts,’’ said Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the European Jewish Association (EJA).

‘’Unlike many other countries in the world, there is no discrimination, no social hostility and no organized manifestation of anti-Semitism in Azerbaijan,’’ says Willy Fautré, Chairman of Human Rights Without Frontiers(HRWF), a Brussels-based NGO promoting human rights and religious tolerance at the European Parliament and in other EU institutions.

A man wearing a knife was recently arrested before the entrance of the Israeli embassy in Brussels, Belgian press reports said.

A record 393,000 people visited Israel in October 2013, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party, will soon return to his post of Foreign Minister after having been aquitted by a Jerusalem Court on a charge of fraud and breach of trust.

1,500 artworks, including masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, stolen by the Nazis and missing for more than 70 years, have been found in an apartment in Munich, German media reported.

A Jewish group deplored that a conference on labelling of meat from ritually slaughtered animals in the European Parliament doesn’t include a representative of the Jewish community.

The issue of kosher slaughter in Poland ‘’is currently being examined by the constitutional court,” said Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski during a meeting with the Speaker of the Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, in Jerusalem.