Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has received the backing of Russia's powerful Orthodox Church, its chief rabbi and top Islamic leader as he seeks a return to the presidency next month.
Three Jewish groups that favor insurance coverage of contraceptives praised President Obama's comrpromise allowing religious institutions to direct staff to alternative health care plans funding such services.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his ministers stormed out of parliament in protest Tuesday after an opposition deputy accused the government of flirting with Nazi ideology.
CRIF, the representative umbrella body French Jewish organizations, has not allowed the family and fiancé of Lee Zeitouni, an Israeli girl killed in a hit-and-run car accident involving two French citizens, to attend its annual dinner despite their wish to use this opportunity to call for the two men to be extradited to Israel.
For the third time since he came to power in 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be Wednesday night the guest of honor at the annual dinner of CRIF, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish organizations.
Scuffles broke out in Hungary between extreme-right groups and demonstrators protesting against a theatre director who opponents say has anti-Semitic and xenophobic sympathies, police said Thursday.
Bus carrying five tourists was leaving Saint Catherine monastery area when gunmen attacked and stole passengers' money and mobile phones, before taking two female U.S. tourists as hostages.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said that those responsible for the death of Lee Zeitouni, the 25-yzar-old Israeli woman hit and killed by the car of two Frenchman in Tel Aviv in September, ''must be tried.''.
Jewish pilgrims who come to Ukraine to visit the Uman grave of Reb Nachman of Bratslav may now use the building that once housed the rabbi's synagogue.
