The new Argentinian leader Mauricio Macri will not appeal a court decision last year that voided a pact with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and wounded more than 300.
Former Labour lawmaker served in the British army investigating Nazi war crimes before entering politics and taking a role in several different Jewish community organizations.
The European Jewish Congress condemned the erection near Budapest of a statue of Balint Homan, a notorious anti-Semitic politician who contributed to the massacre of hundreds of millions of Jews from Hungary during the Holocaust.
This year’s Genesis Prize, dubbed the ‘’Jewish Nobel’’, has been awarded to Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman for his accomplishments as a musician, teacher and advocate for the disabled.
The Jewish community in Geneva was warned to be ''extremely vigilant’’ as the city went on high alert after police search four men with suspected links to the Isis (Daesh) terror group.
CRIF, the umbrella representative body of Jewish organisations in France, welcomed Sunday’s French regional runoff elections which saw the extreme right Front National of Marine Le Pen failing to win any regional presidency.
“Light is the only thing that can chase away darkness when it needs to be chased away, “ said European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans in remarks made at an event to celebrate Chanukah, the Jewish holiday of Lights, under his patronage at the Commission premises in Brussels.
