A Swiss hospital announced Friday that it has lifted a moratorium on religiously-motivated circumcisions imposed in July in the wake of a court ruling in neighbouring Germany.
A German radio presenter has been fired after saying ''Work Sets You Free'', a slogan used at some Nazi concentration camps and a symbol of atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, to listeners who had to work at the weekend, a Berlin newspaper said Thursday.
The widow of the one of the 11 Israel victims of a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Games earned a standing ovation at a London Jewish memorial to mark the 40th anniversary of the incident, as she accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of “discriminating” against them “because they are Israelis and Jews”.
Madonna has provided further controversy on her world tour after inadvertently scheduling her Warsaw concert on the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the renowned 1944 revolt by the Polish resistance army to liberate the capital from Nazi occupation.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has further angered the widows of the 11 Israeli victims of the Munich massacre, after agreeing to address an Israeli embassy-organised memorial service in London.
According to reports in the local media, the Jakub Glanzer synagogue in L’viv is being threatened by new construction next to it, reportedly for a shopping center
The US State Department revealed a marked rise in anti-Semitism across the world “manifested in Holocaust denial, glorification, and relativism”, with the release of its annual report on International Religious Freedom on Monday.
Austrian Justice Minister Beatrix Karl has given a legal clearance to doctors in the Vorarlberg province to resume religious circumcisions without risking criminal charges.
A five day Youth Seminar for the youngsters of Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, and Togliatti turned into an experience of a lifetime for over 30 students who gathered together to learn and enjoy.
French Muslim and Jewish groups were united in outrage Wednesday after two pigs' heads were dumped at a mosque in a town where an Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March.
