The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has convened a meeting of several Jewish organizations to launch the political and legal battle against the legislation to ban shechita or kosher slaughter in Holland.

A leading Israeli rabbinical authority has officially recognized as Jewish the small Chueta community on Spain's island of Majorca, six centuries after their ancestors were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism.

Jewish organizations are cautiously optimistic about nascent African state, call on international community to assist South Sudan in continued struggle.

The Obama administration, joined by U.S. Jewish groups, called for the United Nations to dismiss Richard Falk, its rapporteur on Palestinian rights, after he posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on his blog.

An amendment to the new EU food information rules, calling for shechita, the kosher Jewish laughter of animals, to be singled out for specific labeling as “meat from slaughter without stunning,” was rejected by the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

President Obama's status among American Jews remains unaffected despite recent tensions with Israel's government, according to a Gallup Poll.

tto Habsburg, the eldest son of Austria's last emperor who became a champion of Europe's enlargement, died Monday in Germany at the age of 98.

The Obama administration's decision to enter a dialogue with Egypt's once-banned Muslim Brotherhood is a ''sell-out'' to the Europeans that should be overturned, a US anti-Semitism group said Thursday.

The European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) was awarded the European Union European Citizen's at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF boss indicted in May on sexual assault charges in a New York hotel, was released from house arrest Friday after prosecutors acknowledged serious problems in the accuser’s case.