Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations ended in Jordan Wednesday without achieving any progress and President Mahmoud Abbas plans to consult fellow Arabs on his next move, Palestinian officials said. read more »
A survey carried out two days before Holocaust Memorial Day shows more than a fifth of young Germans do not know the name of Auschwitz or what happened there. read more »
International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked in the European Parliament at a ceremony organized by the European Jewish Congress and addressed by senior European and Israeli officials. read more »
Israeli Jews are becoming more religious, according to a study published Thursday by the Israel Democracy Institute. read more »
The Russian Jewish Congress announced that it had sent a letter of protest to regional officials over the decision to replace a memorial plaque to Jews killed in the Holocaust with one that mentions only “peaceful citizens of Rostov-on-Don and Soviet prisoners of war.” read more »
The United States is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and will take no options off the table to achieve that goal, President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. read more »
Three haredi Orthodox men were arrested for assaulting a woman in Beit Shemesh. read more »
Sweden has become “a center of anti-Semitism,” the president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, said ahead of a ceremony at the European Parliament in Brussels to commemorate the Holocaust. read more »
A man who the authorities said was driven by hatred of Jews was charged Tuesday with firebombing two Bergen County synagogues. read more »
The European Union has stepped up pressure on Iran by imposing a ban on oil imports from the Islamic republic until it complies its international demands over its nuclear program. The 27 EU member countries also agreed to freeze assets in an effort to starve the nuclear program of funding. read more »
Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has asked Germany to provide funds for his lawsuit against the online edition of the German tabloid newspaper 'Bild'. read more »
A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan that has only recently come to light is creating a storm among scholars who say the landmark find could reveal an undiscovered side of medieval Jewry. read more »
Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Jewish weekly 'Atlanta Jewish Times', announced his resignation on Monday after publishing an op-ed in which he suggested that Israel assassinate US President Barack Obama. read more »
Anti-Jewish feeling is "significantly" entrenched in German society, according to a report by experts appointed by the German parliament, the Bundestag. read more »
On the occasion, 18 people were given the Samuel Hadas Award, including former Spanish Prime Ministers Jose Maria Aznar and Felipe Gonzalez. read more »
European Union diplomats agreed to place an embargo on the import of Iranian oil with a phase-in period to 1 July 2012. read more »
Jordanian King Abdullah's attempt of shifting the focus of the unrest to the political and civilized track has forced him to dialogue on reforms with the Muslim Brotherhood. read more »
Members of the Women’s International Zionist Organization have elected Tova Ben-Dov to be its next president at the conclusion of its quadrennial gathering in Tel Aviv. read more »
Three men were detained last week after planning to attack two Israelis employed by a Jewish school in Baku, the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security has revealed. read more »
The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood has won 47 percent of the seats in the new Egyptian parliament. read more »
