Speaking at US Holocaust Museum, US secretary of state calls on int'l community to respond when criticism of Israeli policy crosses the line to anti-Semitism.
-The International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP) has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold a minute of silence in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes killed 40 years ago in Munich by the Palestinian terror organization Black September, at the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games on July 27.
A German court ruling that branded circumcision as grievous bodily harm has created waves in Switzerland where a second hospital announced on Friday a possible halt to the procedure.
Israel's ambassador to Germany Wednesday welcomed plans by the Bundestag, the German parliament, to pass a cross-party resolution on protecting the right to religious circumcision, after a court in Cologne ruled it a criminal act.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party the country risked becoming a "laughing stock" over a court ruling calling religious circumcision a criminal act, according to a report Monday.
Czech lawmakers passed a bill Saturday on the restitution of assets worth up to 2.95 billion euros ($3.6 billion) seized from 17 religious denominations by Czechoslovakia's communist regime in 1948-89.
German doctors are seeking an urgent clarification from the government over religious circumcision after a court ruling calling it a criminal act prompted an international outcry.
