A Jewish group deplored that a conference on labelling of meat from ritually slaughtered animals in the European Parliament doesn’t include a representative of the Jewish community.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, who is on a two-day visit to Israel, will meet Monday with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder warned the US Administration not to trust the current charm offensive of Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani, in a private hour-long meeting earlier this week with Vice President Joseph Biden in Washington.
US Jewish leaders said they “had a constructive and open exchange,” at the White House with Administration officials over efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.
Armed with a powerful New York public relations outfit and a pledge to commemorate the mass deportation of Hungarian Jewry, the Hungarian government is preparing to challenge what it says is an inaccurate image of a country lax in confronting home-grown extremism.
Over 5,500 people, including prominent French politicians, scholars and clergymen, have already signed a petition against attempts to ban ritual circumcision of boys in Europe.
At the initiative of the Russian Jewish Congress, the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress today issued a strong condemnation of the terrorist attack on a bus in the Russian city of Volgograd on Monday.
