The Bundestag, the German Parliament, on Wednesday approved a bill to keep male infant circumcision legal after a Cologne court ruled in May that the practice amounts to bodily harm.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowed to defend the country's Jews from anti-Semitism after an extreme-right MP made anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli remarks in parliament.
Greek police confirmed reports of a homemade bomb exploded at the offices far-right Golden Dawn party in Athens early Tuesday, adding that whilst significant structural damages were caused, no injuries came of the attack.
Hungarian Jewish groups staged a demonstration in front of the parliament in Budapest to protest at anti-Semitic calls by an extreme-right politician last week to create a register of Hungarian Jews in the interests of “national security”.
An inter-communal conference in Brussels Thursday, which will play host to leaders from across the Muslim and Jewish communities, hopes to tackle issues of freedom of religion as well as rising racial incitement and anti-Semitism in Europe.
«Dialogue between religions is as necessary as ever in light of recent conflicts» said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday at a meeting Monday in Vienna of Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders aimed at forging new efforts promoting interfaith dialogue and tolerance.
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Poland that shechitah, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals, was ''illegal.''
Angela Merkel sought to ease the concerns of Germany's Jews Sunday over a disputed ruling against circumcision as she became the first Chancellor to address the Jewish community's annual Council meeting.
