The French Jewish umbrella group spoke out against recurring comparisons between Nazi treatment of Jews and Frances current policy to rapidly expel Roma migrants.
Nobel Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said that the expulsion of Roms from France cannot be compared to the transportation of Jews to Nazi death camps during WWII.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is collecting funds to help the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan with food, clothing, medicine and other necessities.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's racially-tinged security crackdown has begun to cause concern even within his own right-wing camp and raise fears that he has damaged France's international image.
The Jewish community of Omsk is one of many communities to have responded to the appeal made by Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar to assist people who have been affected by the serious fires that recently occurred in certain parts of the country.
