Portraits of Gilad Shalit and Ingrid Betancourt on wall of Strasbourg synagogue
Portraits of French-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, who are detained respectively by…
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Italian prominent rabbis denounce new Good Friday prayer as ‘step backwards’
Italy’s two most prominent rabbis have criticised the Holy See’s announcement that the traditional Good…
UK government stops false e-mail rumour about Holocaust teaching
The British government has taken the unprecedented step of writing to every embassy to stop…
Pope removes ‘anti-Semitic’ text from prayer
Jewish organizations have welcomed Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to rewrite the Good Friday prayer in…
Jordan’s King deplores that Hamas is taking its directives from Tehran
Jordan’s King Abdallah II deplored that foreign forces are influencing Hamas, the Islamic movement which…
European Jewish group calls for stiffer penalties for hate crimes in Greece
The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, asked Greece to introduce stiffer penalties…
Advertising magnate buys Himmler portrait for his new art gallery
British art collector Charles Saatchi has risked the ire of Britain’s Jews by buying a…
Société Générale on trial in French-Israel money laundering scam
A trial involving a vast money laundering scam between France and Israel opened Monday in…
European Parliament group head ‘strongly’ condemns Dimona bomb attack
The chairman of the largest political group within the European Parliament has ‘strongly’ condemned the…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy marries Carla Bruni-Tedeschi
Only nine weeks after meeting, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and ex-supermodel Italian-born singer-composer Carla Bruni-Tedeschi…