A majority of British Jews think the Israeli government should negotiate with Hamas, 52 per cent compared with 39 per cent against, according to what is claimed to be the largest survey ever conducted among Jews in Britain.
The Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Reimer, and the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, Alexander Boroda, signed a cooperation agreemen.
President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region, during which time he spent an hour visiting the Freud Jewish Community Center of Birobidjan.
The Jewish community of Bishkek is helping to deliver humanitarian aid to the south of Kyrgyzstan for those who are caught up in the ethnic rioting taking place there.
The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev and the Governor of the Tomsk Region Victor Kress, visited the Tomsk Synagogue, which is currently in the last stage of full-scale restoration.
