The German government on Friday pledged quick action to protect the right of Jews and Muslims to circumcise baby boys on religious grounds, after a court ruling that prompted international outcry.
The Irish presidency of the European security body OSCE has urged Bosnia to end discrimination against its Roma and Jewish minorities, whose members cannot run for high elected office
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has condemned the Church of England’s General Synod for promoting ‘an inflammatory and partisan programme at the expense of its interfaith relations’, in a statement of Wednesday.
A Frenchman of Algerian descent, Merah shocked France when he killed three soldiers in Mautauban and four Jewish people at a Jewish school in Toulouse between March 11 and 19.
t’s hard to find anyone who has done as much for the Jewish community as Sheldon Adelson, Alan Dershowitz writes, following Nat'l Jewish Democratic Council's call to stop accepting donations from Adelson.
Berlin's Jewish Hospital will suspend circumcisions after a German court ruled this week that performing the procedure on religious grounds is unlawful, a hospital spokesman said Friday.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle weighed in Friday on a controversial German court ruling on circumcision, saying the country protected religious freedom and traditions.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed strong support for the call by the Jewish community in Germany for parliament to quickly pass legislation specifically protecting circumcision as a religious practice.
An Argentinian Holocaust memorial 15 years in the making has been indefinitely delayed, after local and national laws have repeatedly thwarted its construction.
