The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) said that it has sent money to the Jewish community in Japan to provide relief for victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the island nation last Friday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy fired an adviser he had hired to promote ''diversity'' after the appointee attacked his allies' approach to Islam and secularism, the former aide told AFP on Friday.
Are the congressional hearings on radicalization among American Muslims an instance of McCarthyism, or is the opposition to them political correctness run amok?
Chabad-Lubavitch centers in Tokyo and Hong Kong have shipped tons of food into one of the Japanese cities hardest hit by last week's earthquake and tsunami.
The North American federation is collecting donations for the victims of the tsunami triggered by the biggest earthquake on record in Japan expected to have claimed more than 1,000 lives.
Prominent Muslim and Jewish leaders from across Europe pledged to stand together against the rise of extreme-right xenophobic and racist parties that represent an escalating peril to ethnic and religious minorities across Europe, including Jews and Muslims.
As Marine Le Pen, leader of the extreme-right Front National (FN) party, currently tops polls for next year's presidential election, she has been invited for the first time by the main Jewish radio to speak at a weekly political talk-show, prompting negative reactions within the Jewish community.
A Jewish student has brought a federal civil rights case against the University of California at Berkeley, saying the university did not protect her from being attacked because she's Jewish.
