German MEP Martin Schulz, the current chairman of the Group of Progessive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, is likely to become the new President of the European Parliament for two years later this month.
US President Barack Obama has named an observant Jew with long experience of Capitol Hill and close Jewish community ties as his new chief of staff, one of the most consuming jobs in the United States.
''Israel will not accept restrictions on Jewish religious freedom,'' said Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in reference to European legislation seeking to ban shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals.
New York police arrested a man Tuesday over the firebombing of a mosque, but some say the incident reflects much deeper tensions faced by Muslim New Yorkers -- and that police are partly to blame.
Better public diplomacy needs to be used in order to prevent a wave of legislation proscribing shechita, the kosher slaughtering of animals, Rabbi Goldberg, Deputy Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), told a committee of the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
First nominating contest establishes Romney - who won by just 8 votes - as the Republican party's most likely challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama.
Jerzy Kluger, the late Pope John Paul II's Jewish childhood friend in Poland, died over the weekend at the age of 90 in Rome where he had lived for decades, the ANSA news agency reported.
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia has protested the “catastrophic” conditions of the historic Jewish cemetery in the city of Nis and urged authorities to act against vandalism there.
Vaclav Havel, who died last week at the age of 75, was honored by Prague’s Jewish community during a Hanukkah lighting ceremony in a square of the centre of the capital, the Czech media reported.
