Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will be honored on Monday as the first recipient of a $1 million award that organizers are calling the “Jewish Nobel Prize.”
Csanád Szegedi, a former leader of the extreme-right Hungarian Jobbik party who last year learnt that he has Jewish ancestry, is converting to Judaism with the assistance of Chabad rabbis in Budapest.
The Greek parliament voted to lift the immunity of six MPs from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who are facing charges of belonging to a criminal organization involved in beating migrants, extortion and arms smuggling.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Director General of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association (EJA), on Thursday thanked the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament, for passing a bill aimed at preventing that kosher slaughter be outlawed in the country.
As Italy on Wednesday marked the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from Rome’s ghetto to Auschwitz, Holocaust denial is to become a crime in the country.
Last Thursday, the Jewish Community of Irkutsk donated a play room to the cardiology department at the children’s wing of one of the leading local hospitals.
For the first time, a poll shows France's extreme-right National Front leading over the two big mainstream political parties in view of he European Parliament elections in May 2014.
The head of the Council of Europe, a pan-European intergovernmental body, Thorbjorn Jagland, has assured Israeli President Shimon Peres that Europe will not ban male circumcision.
