French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Paris's main mosque Wednesday, a week after a row over halal meat led France's Muslims and Jews to complain they were being used as pawns in the presidential election.
Rabbi Zalman Bernstein charged by Indian authorities for failing to declare on his visa application that he would be conducting religious activities and of trying to convert foreigners.
Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld has been choosen by Die Linke (The Left) opposition party as a candidate for the German presidency in an election next month.
The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called on French President Nicolas Sarkozy to defend ‘shechita’, the Jewish ritual slaughter, in Europe and to oppose a regulation that would introduce a labelling ''which would lead to stigmatisation.''
Study jibes with scientific reports that wives and girlfriends of circumcised men have lower rates of infection with viruses which in rare cases may lead to cervical and other cancers.
Outlet, popular among neo-Nazis and whose original name resembled that of the Norway killer, causes particular offense to nearby Jewish restaurant targeted by anti-Semitic attacks.
Jewish leaders who met Wednesday with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in his office said he assured them that Judaism wasn't targeted in his controversial comments about the ritual slaughter but they insisted they would keep an eye on government policy.
France's Jews and Muslims united Tuesday to complain they were being used as pawns in a presidential election increasingly dominated by bitter disputes over national identity and ritual slaughter.
Latvia's capital said it was banning demonstrations on March 16, the date of a controversial annual march honouring the Baltic state's troops who fought the Soviets under the banner of Nazi Germany during World War II.
