General David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan, has warned that soldiers’ lives will be endangered if a Florida evangelical church goes ahead with a planned burning of the Koran – Islam’s holy book – on Saturday, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. read more »
"This is the best, most respectable answer to Nazism and anti-Semitism, which once removed us from here, and proof that the people of Israel live,” Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said at the rededication of the Óbuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary. read more »
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has voiced concern about Israel’s demand to define itself as ‘Jewish state’. read more »
A pro-Palestinian group in the United States has announced plans to break Israel's sea blockade of Gaza by flying a planeload of aid into the Hamas-controlled coastal strip. read more »
Iran is steadily stockpiling enriched uranium, even in the face of toughened international sanctions, according to a report by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. read more »
Two rabbinical students of the Rabbinical Seminary Berlin were ordained as rabbis in the eastern German city of Leipzig in the presence of the president of the World Jewish Congress. read more »
German President Christian Wulff has inaugurated a new synagogue in the city of Mainz, on the very site where Nazis destroyed the previous one more than 70 years ago. read more »
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder spoke with 'CBN News' on the growing world-wide efforts to delegitimize Israel, the potential of a nuclear Iran, Israel's future development of the Negev and the growing support of Christians world-wide for the Jewish state. read more »
Following a first round of direct talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leadership, US President Barack Obama said that parties were making progress on the Middle East peace process. read more »
Israel today is nothing less than essential to us because it is one of the few nations willing to pay a price for its survival, said former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar in a speech to delegates at the WJC Governing Board in Jerusalem, on 1 September 2010. read more »
The WJC has awarded several Israeli organizations involved in the rescue effort for victims of the Haiti earthquake in January a special humanitarian award. The writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel received the first ‘Guardian of Jerusalem’ award from the WJC. read more »
Karel De Gucht, the EU trade commissioner and former Belgian foreign minister, has sparked outrage across Europe by alleging in a radio interview that the “Jewish lobby” held power over US foreign policy and that it was difficult having “rational” discussions with Jews on the subject of the Middle East. read more »
At World Jewish Congress, President says any attempt at a solution other than the two-state solution would be dangerous; praises Obama, Mubarak. read more »
A team of Israeli police officers will leave for Haiti to serve as part of a multinational force set up by the United Nations. It marks the first time Israelis will serve on a UN force. read more »
Tehran has said it was prepared to sell weapons to the Lebanon should the government in Beirut seek help to equip its military. read more »
Muslim protestors set ablaze half a dozen vehicles in the eastern part of Jerusalem on Thursday and threw stones and firebombs at Israeli police after Jewish settlers approached a mosque, local residents and police said. read more »
Jewish organizations in Lithuania have condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack in which a pig's head was left at the entrance of a synagogue in the city of Kaunas. read more »
Jewish leaders have criticized Romanian authorities for persisting with the issue of a coin in honor of the late PM Miron Cristea, who stripped many Jews of their citizenship in 1939. read more »
President Ahmadinejad has unveiled Iran’s first bomber drone and said it would serve as a “messenger of death” to Iran’s enemies. read more »
The Canadian Jewish Congress has criticized posthumous honors for the first female mayor of Ottawa because of her opposition to taking in Jewish refugees during World War II. read more »
