The leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called once again for Jonathan Pollard’s release from incarceration after visiting him in the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina.
As many as 4,000 anti-fascist demonstrators gathered in Vienna late Friday, organisers said, to protest against a ball attended by European extreme-right figures including France's Marine Le Pen.
The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Ronald S. Lauder, has expressed outrage at the conviction of Italian journalist and politician Giuseppe (“Peppino”) Caldarola who had written an article criticizing a cartoon entitled ‘Fiamma Frankenstein’ that depicts fellow parliamentarian Fiamma Nirenstein, who is Jewish, with a hooked nose, the symbol of fascist Italy and the Star of David.
A Jewish newspaper editor who wrote a column in which he speculated that Israel might want Mossad to murder US President Barack Obama for his failure to wage war on Iran, resigned on Monday after a global furor erupted over his comments.
Hungary's premier Viktor Orban rejected charges of authoritarianism while seeking to head off EU legal action for flouting democracy in a fiery European parliament debate Wednesday.
Annotated extracts of Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' will be republished in Germany next week for the first time since the Nazi dictator's fall in 1945, the British publisher of the text said on Monday.
A US sheriff's deputy who endured an anti-Semitic rant from Mel Gibson for arresting the star won the right to a trial Thursday, over his treatment by bosses after the notorious incident.
As the Republican primary fight moves from New Hampshire to South Carolina, Newt Gingrich is stepping up his attacks on Mitt Romney and some prominent Jewish Republicans -- who have a rich, mutually admiring history with both men -- are wondering what happens next.
