Festivities linked to a pilgrimage that draws thousands of Jews every year to a Tunisia synagogue, reputedly the oldest in Africa, have been scaled down because of security fears, organizers said Monday.
Russian and Ukrainian Jewish and Muslim leaders meet in Kiev to discuss rise in Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as part of month-long European efforts to heighten awareness and fight racism, extremism and discrimination.
Sweden's German-born Queen Silvia has begun an investigation into the nature of controversial ties between her father and the Nazi regime, the palace said Sunday.
The top U.S. Jewish immigrant defense group urged potential refugee status applicants in Iran and the former Soviet Union to apply under an act just extended by Congress.
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) slammed the timing of a vote this week by the European Parliament's food safety committee for clear labelling so consumers can see whether meat has been stunned or not before it has been slaughtered.
he Rabbinical Centre of Europe expressed, in a letter to Dutch politicians, its ''deepest concerns'' regarding the proposed legislation that would effectively ban shechita, the practice of Jewish ritual slaughter in the Netherlands.
Berlin's state library handed back 13 books stolen by the Nazis to the Jewish community Wednesday as the German government pledged to redouble its efforts to return plundered cultural treasures.
