US president warns of cost of military conflict, urges Congress to hold off on new sanctions on Tehran; US Secretary of State Kerry says sanctions ease is necessary in order to build trust with the Iranians.
27 members of the European Parliament have urged the EU to rethink the guidelines issued in July by the European Commission which ban funding of Israeli entities beyond the Green Line.
Sen. Mark Kirk claims White House pitch to US lawmakers to delay new Iran sanctions was ''unconvincing'' and ''fairly anti-Israeli”; says Israeli officials told him proposed deal would only set back nuclear program by ''24 days.''
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.
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.
