The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the European Jewish Congress hailed Poland’s Constitutional Court ruling which affirmed Wednesday the protection of kosher slaughter of animals (shechita) in the country under the constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom.
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, an expert at the Second Vatican Council, a longtime leader of Catholic-Jewish dialogue, and the former Vatican archivist, died in Rome Dec. 8 at the age of 91.
Poland Constitutional Court has overturned last year’s Parliament’s decision to ban kosher slaughtering in the country, a decision that put many European Jewish communities in turmoil.
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the West had used the Ukraine crisis and the annexation of Crimea as a pretext to slap sanctions against Russia.
Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to St. Petersburg, the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s, to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union).
EU foreign policy chief and European Commission Vice-President, Federica Mogherini, will host a Chanuka Menorah lighting in the European Commission on December 17.
The trial of two Frenchmen who hit and killed an Israeli woman while driving an SUV in Tel Aviv in 2011, then fled to France to avoid prosecution, was suspended this week after one of their lawyers was attacked in the court’s bathroom.
CRIF, the representative body of Jewish institutions in France (CRIF), urged French legislators not to vote a draft resolution calling on the French government to recognize a Palestinian state.
