List of the 39 Jewish members -- 12 senators and 27 representatives -- who are expected to serve in the 112th U.S. Congress, which is set to convene in January:
Jewish leaders have expressed great sadness at the news of the passing of former Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner, who died Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 60.
The Jewish community of Krivoy Rog hosted a visit by famous Russian star and comedian Klara Novikova. Her new show ''And Still We Laugh'' was debuting in Krivoy Rog.
The Golden Rose Synagogue held a ceremony to honor soldiers who liberated the city from Nazi occupants, held on the 67th anniversary of the city’s liberation. The ceremony involved Dnepropetrovsk Mayor Ivan Kulichenko.
-World Jewish Congress (WJC) Vice-President Rabbi Marc Schneier defended Israel against a diatribe by Palestinian Autority’s chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, who told an interfaith forum in Doha that Israel was ''illegally occupying'' and ''Judaizing'' Jerusalem.
American Jews, among the nation's most reliable liberal voters, are likelier than ever to give Republicans a long hard look in upcoming elections, as enthusiasm wanes for President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party
The Jewish community of Bobruisk hosted a visit by a delegation of several top officials from different levels of government in Belarus. Among them were Vladimir Lameko, the Deputy Commissioner for Religious and Ethnic Affairs of Belarus, and Vladimir Martynovsky, the Head of the Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the Mogilev Region’s Executive Committee.
European leaders are focusing too much attention on the Roma policy of French President Nicolas Sarkozy while ignoring ''blatant anti-Roma discrimination'' in Eastern Europe, a Jewish group warned after an EU official recently compared France’s Roma to Jews deported in WWII.
The British news agency Press Association has apologized after several regional newspapers mistakingly used one of its picture of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to illustrate a story about a rail protest in Wales.
