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 »
American Jewish leaders have delivered a letter to the White House urging action to allow food to reach hundreds of thousands of people facing starvation in Sudan's border regions. read more »
In the wake of the Arab Spring, an Israeli government minister said that for their own safety all of Tunisia's remaining Jews should move to Israel. read more »
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he would seek "goodwill gestures" by Israel to help revive peace talks when he sees Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in Jerusalem. read more »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the leadership race of his Likud Party. read more »
Britain, France and the US will be making their most forceful push yet for a political transition in Syria at the UN Security Council this week, lending support to an Arab plan that they hope will overcome Russian opposition. read more »
The Jewish Agency for Israel's Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce (‘Project HEART’) has announced that its searchable online database of Jewish property records from World War II now contains more than two million records. read more »
