In the north-east Ukrainian city of Sumy, the local Jewish community hosted a conference involving numerous ethnic and cultural groups from the region.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is objecting to the appearance of Richard Goldstone at New York University.

Harry Schwarz, a South African Jewish leader and lawmaker who as an attorney defended Nelson Mandela, has died.

Shmuel Birnham's road from Vancouver rabbi to official Jewish clergyman of the 2010 Winter Olympics began, in all places, at an interfaith service with the Dalai Lama.

On January 26, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar held a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

A Russian Jewish group has decried Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko's decision to honor the head of a Ukrainian wartime nationalist leader.

The Russian government has chosen a Jewish-themed book for distribution as part of a government-funded youth program.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council have expressed concern about the government's decision to lift its ban on relations with the Muslim Council of Britain, the UK's largest Muslim organization.

A commercial flight was diverted to Philadelphia after a Jewish passenger's tefillin were mistaken for a bomb.

The Haitian earthquake has been a major fund-raising boon at the Krieger Schechter Day School in suburban Baltimore.