Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who were among the first responders to the bombing at Moscow's busiest airport comforted families and said they tried ''to uplift their spirits.''

French author Celine pulled from recognition over anti-Semitic past

Italian rabbis have expressed concern about the significant increase in assimilation among Jews in the country.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, expressed regrets about his use of Holocaust terminology in attacking Republicans during the debate over health care reform.

Russia said Thursday it would not send any new art exhibitions to the United States until the two sides had settled a dispute over the return of a Jewish library to New York.

France's National Front crowned founder Jean-Marie Le Pen's daughter Marine its new leader Sunday, looking to soften the anti-immigrant party's image before next year's presidential polls.

Some members of Tunisia's Jewish community are thinking about traveling to France, while others are considering immigrating to Israel; 20 Israeli tourists return home safely.

The Society of Professional Journalists retired a lifetime achievement award named for Helen Thomas.

Around 1,500 Jews live today in Tunisia where Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, who has ruled the country since 1987, fled on Friday for Saudi Arabia after deadly protests over unemployment, high prices and lack of freedom of expression.

Jewish faith leaders joined a call for soul searching in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.