Some believe the gathering has been repurposed for anti-Israel political reasons.

On the eve of the upcoming three-day state visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in France, several Jewish organisations will stage a demonstration in Paris to express their opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal and to the threat posed by Iran to Israel.

Pope Francis welcomed over a hundred leaders of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Wednesday and issued a strong condemnation of anti-Semitism. At a private audience with WJC President Ronald S. Lauder in the morning, the pontiff made it clear that outright attacks against Israel’s existence is a form of anti-Semitism.

Leaders of Jewish communities from around the world will gather in Rome next Tuesday for a meeting of the World Jewish Congress’ (WJC) Governing Board during which they will discuss the situation of Jews around the world, as well as the current tensions in the Middle East, the refugee crisis in Europe and the Iranian threat.

Thirty-six members of the European Parliament from across the political spectrum have urged the assembly’s President Martin Schulz to increase the body’s attention to the restitution of Holocaust-era property, noting the need for resolution seven decades after the end of WWII.

Clothing company ousted its founder Dov Charney last year after alleged sexual misconduct; he filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit

In all likelihood, the opposition politician will give his name to Vozdukhoflotsky Avenue.

‘’Religious communities should be able to exercise the right to freedom of religion without impediment and without discrimination and to practise their faith publicly and freely in accordance with their own rites,’’ said the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg in a resolution that drops the idea of banning ritual male circumcision.

 Spain has granted citizenship to 4,302 people who identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews, followin the adoption earlier this year by the Spanish parliament of a law granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled or were expelled from Spain ahead of and during the Spanish Inquisition.

“Without the Jewish community, Europe will cease to exist,” European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans told participants of the first Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights organized by the EU Commission.