The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Chistian Democrats allies, swept to victory in a regional election in Bavaria on Sunday, only one week before national elections in Germany.
The German publisher of InTouch and numerous other magazines said Friday that it would stop publishing a pulp magazine criticized by an American Jewish group for heroic portrayals of German war criminals in World War II.
Twelve years after the worst attack in the history of the United States, President Barack Obama holds a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House, as families in New York remember their loved ones.
The most influential American pro-Israel Jewish groups are backing the Obama administration’s call for military action in Syria, as the Congress is to vote next week on authorizing such action.
Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP), has assured the World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder that his church does not support any actions or calls inciting hatred against Jews.
The French driver of a car involved in the hit-and-run death of Lee Zeitouni, a 25-year-old Israeli woman in Tel Aviv in September 2011, was indicted on Tuesday, the Paris Prosecutor spokesperson announced.
Pope Francis on Monday wished Jews around the world a sweet and peaceful year 5774, called for increased dialogue among the world’s religious communities and opposed fundamentalism in any faith.
’I want to reassure you that together with the other European institutions and the governments of the EU member states, we will vigorously oppose the forces of anti-Semitism,’’ wrote European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in a letter to European Jewry on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the 5774 Jewish New Year that begins this week.
Alexei Navalny, who is running to become Mayor of Moscow in the 8 September election, is raising fear and concern among Jews and other minorities in the capital with his anti-Semitic and xenophobic remarks.
Bronislaw Komorowski, the president of Poland, has said that he considers the preservation of the religious rights of the country's Jewish community to be a national interest of supreme importance.
