The German cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday approved a draft law to allow circumcision in Germany after a court in Cologne said earlier this year the religious rite amounted to grievous bodily harm, a ruling that caused international uproar.
France's Interior Minister on Monday predicted more arrests of Islamic extremists and warned of possibly hundreds of home-grown radicals at large following a crackdown that sent shockwaves through the country's Jewish community.
A Brussels synagogue was daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti reading “death to the Jews” and “bang” overnight on Tuesday, Belgian public radio station RTBF reported.
Swedish police confirmed reports of an explosion being sounded at a Jewish community centre in Malmo, in the South of the country Friday, as the entrance was discovered smashed on their arrival to the scene.
A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles, a Paris suburb, on Wednesday, one day after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, wounding at least one person.
Jewish groups have reacted with shock over a controversial mock advertising campaign for an imaginary weight loss supplement that appeared in an Estonian national newspaper depicting Holocaust concentration camp victims.
Islamophobic incidents increased by more than 14% in the first half of this year, as anti-Semitic acts reached an all-time high following the Toulouse shootings, heard a gathering of Jewish and Muslim leaders on Tuesday.
France's Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot pledged his country’s support to Israel Monday, as he warned that “France will not be a passive witness” to attempts to delegitimize the Jewish State.
Unknown vandals desecrated six Jewish tombstones at a cemetery in the northeastern German city of Rostock with graffiti including Nazi swastikas, police announced Wednesday.
