Swedish police have arrested two men in connection with an explosion that rocked a Jewish community building in Malmo. The explosion took place early Friday morning, according to Fred Kahn, chairman of the board of Jewish community of Malmo. “There was an explosion and someone also threw a rock at the windows at the entrance…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.N. speech about Iranian nuclear advances has dampened speculation in Israel that he could order a war this year. Analysing Thursday’s address in which Netanyahu literally drew a “red line” on a cartoon bomb to show how close Iran was to building nuclear weaponry, commentators saw his deadline for any military…
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, has come under criticism for adjourning city council talks early for the start of Yom Kippur. Following the early suspension of deliberations at the Council of Paris on Tuesday, council member Gilles Alayrac said, “The mayor devotes too much attention to religious sensitivities.” The newspaper Le Parisien also quoted…
Swedish police have arrested two men in connection with an explosion that rocked a Jewish community building in Malmo. The explosion took place early Friday morning, according to Fred Kahn, chairman of the board of Jewish community of Malmo. “There was an explosion and someone also threw a rock at the windows at the entrance…
French police arrested four men last week on suspicion that they hurled empty bottles at Jews near a synagogue in Cannes on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. On Sept. 17 the suspects stood outside a Cannes synagogue, shouted anti-Semitic slogans, and threw bottles at the building and passersby, according to the SPCJ, the security department…
Belgium will bestow its highest civilian honor on Daniel Zajfman, an Israeli physicist and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Zajfman, who was born in Brussels and immigrated to Israel in 1979, will receive the title of Commander of the Order of Leopold on Nov. 4 in a small ceremony at the Embassy of…
President Barack Obama and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu share the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and will maintain close cooperation on the issue, the White House said on Thursday, after the prime minister addressed the United Nations. But the White House stopped short of saying Obama would give any ground on his…
Iran will not submit a movie for the 2013 Oscars, in protest of an anti-Muslim video. Iran’s culture minister on Tuesday said his country would boycott the next Academy Awards because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had failed to protest the film, which mocks the Prophet Muhammad. The academy organizes the award…
Billionaire financier George Soros has committed $1 million to the “Super PAC” group that is helping fund President Barack Obama’s re-election bid, a person familiar with the pledge said on Thursday. The move by Soros could trigger more big checks from liberal donors who have previously avoided giving to Super PACs due to their concern…
Vandals reportedly overturned 26 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery near Prague. The vandalism took place in the last two months in an unused Jewish cemetery located near the village of Prudice, south of Prague, in the Czech Republic, a police spokesman told The Associated Press. The last burial in the 18th century cemetery, located in…
Three Azerbaijanis were convicted in a Baku court of planning to kill teachers at a Jewish school in the capital city. The three were found guilty Thursday of plotting the murders. They received weapons and money from Iran, The Associated Press reported, citing a court official. The leader of the plot, Rasim Aliyev, said in…
