Iran will help any nation or group that confronts the “cancer” Israel, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday. read more »
The International Court of Justice in the Dutch city of The Hague has confirmed that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of Nazi atrocities committed during World War II. read more »
In an interview with the 'Jewish Chronicle', Márton Gyöngyösi, deputy leader of the far-right Jobbik party, openly questioned the Holocaust. He also claimed that Jews were colonizing Hungary and that Israeli's treatment of the Palestinians was like a "Nazi system". read more »
The Orthodox Jewish community of Amsterdam has reinstated its chief rabbi, Aryeh Ralbag, after briefly suspending him last month for having co-signed a statement in which homosexuality was described as an inclination from which one can be “healed.” read more »
A flag-maker says Nazi flags flying outside his home will not be removed despite calls by members of the Melbourne Jewish community. read more »
The Dutch government said today it will return two paintings that were looted more than 70 years ago by Hermann Göring for his country estate to the descendants of a Jewish antiques dealer in Paris. read more »
Prestigious award is retracted after Austrian daily quotes Freedom Party leader Heinz Straché as saying, 'We are the new Jews,' in response to protesters who heckled guests arriving at a ball coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. read more »
Jewish leaders are criticizing a ceremony that involved a controversial church leader being wrapped in a Torah scroll and exalted as a "king" to the applause of his parishioners. read more »
Rabbi Youlus has pleaded guilty to fraud, admitting to a scheme to steal money while claiming to be saving and restoring historic Torahs. One of those who was initially dubious was Menachem Z. Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress. read more »
Iran was trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in a bid to stop the assassinations of its nuclear scientists, the head of the Israel's internal security service, Yoram Cohen, has said. read more »
Israeli and Jewish leaders, including WJC Secretary-General Dan Diker, discussed relations between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora at the Herzliya Conference. read more »
Greek Jewish parliamentarians from 1915 to 1936 were honored in a ceremony at the old Parliament building in Athens. read more »
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has called Germany's decision to give €10 million (US $13 million) to Israel's Holocaust memorial institution Yad Vashem over the next ten years "highly commendable". read more »
Two rabbis in the UK were said to be among a group of potential targets for a gang of nine terror suspects, a court has heard. read more »
IAEA inspectors have agreed to return to Tehran later this month for a second round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program, while acknowledging that meetings this week achieved no significant breakthroughs, diplomats have said. read more »
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said Israel must build up its military capabilities and be prepared to strike if economic sanctions fail to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. read more »
More anti-Semitic crime took place in the Greater Manchester are than in London in 2011, despite seven times more Jews living in the capital, the Community Security Trust has found. read more »
The mother and aunt of a young Palestinian man who brutally slaughtered nearly an entire Jewish family last year went on Palestinian Authority television recently to praise his murderous actions and to denounce Israel. read more »
Czech Foreign Minister Karl Schwarzenberg, considered one of Israel’s strongest supporters inside the EU, has said Israel needed to engage more intensively with Europe. read more »
We need to learn and study evil as a discipline, as we would science, engineering or any other subject. Our civilization depends on the ability to recognize evil, not at commemoration ceremonies years or decades after it has wrought its destruction, but while it is in its infancy and the ominous signs are growing. read more »
