French President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing allies have launched a full-frontal assault on his potential -- but undeclared -- rival in next year's presidential election, IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The town of Yessentuki, located at the base of the Caucasus Mountains.in the Stavropol Region, hosted a number of leaders. Among them were Chief Rabbi of Stavropol Alexander Nesterov, and Stavropol Jewish community chairman Konstantin Solomonov, and Alexander Khloponin, the Vice-Premier of the Russian Federation and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President to the North Caucasus Federal District.
The U.S. Jewish policy umbrella welcomed the emergence of a new state in southern Sudan, but said the international community must be vigilant in bringing about a broader peace.
For the second time since he came to power, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will address Wednesday in Paris the annual dinner of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish organizations.
Cuban prosecutors will seek a 20-year prison sentence for accused spy Alan Gross, a U.S. government contractor that the State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews.
-A claim by a Turkish minister that the EU risks falling victim to ''the facist methods of the 1930s'' has drawn a request for clarification, the European Union said Thursday.
Aaron Porter, the head of the Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS), had to be escorted to safety by police after being surrounded by radical protesters shouting anti-Semitic insults at him at a rally in Manchester.
The German film ratings agency (FSK) has barred those under the age of 18 from seeing a Turkish film widely considered as anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli.
