Manhunt continues for 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev; police kill 26-year-old brother Tamerlan after reports of gunfire and explosions following shooting of cop on MIT campus; Boston put under lockdown.
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar expressed condolences to the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, in connection with the terrorist attack in Boston.
The European Parliament (EP) is due to debate Hungary’s recent controversial constitutional amendments at next week’s plenary session in Strasbourg, amid ongoing concern from the EU institutions as to “whether these changes respect EU law”.
New documents obtained by a an Argentinian news website suggested that the Venezuelan secret services have been spying on the country’s Jewish community amid fears staunch rivals the US and the Israel may use key contacts to destabilise the dictatorship in the wake of longtime authoritarian leader Hugo Chavez’s death earlier this month.
British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to the Jewish community’s “significant historic and continued contribution to life in the UK” in his official greetings to mark the Jewish festival of Passover Monday, as he said the input of its 300,000-strong Jewish community had “helped make Britain the richly diverse and inclusive place it is today”.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico emphasized the importance of preserving historical Jewish sites in his country, including synagogues and cemeteries, ''as they are an integral part of the country's heritage'', during a meeting last Wednesday with a delegation of the European Jewish Association (EJA) and the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) in Bratislava.