LONDON (WJC)–The second highest number of anti-Semitic incidents was recorded in the UK last year, the Community Security Trust (CST) of the British Jewish community said. More than 639 complaints about violence and abuse against Jews or Jewish institutions were received last year. They included street attacks, hate mail, threats, and the vandalism and desecration […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and nine of their Senate colleagues have called on the German government to stop the Hamburg-based bank, Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), from providing financial support for Iran’s nuclear program.  The Senators wrote to the German Foreign Minister expressing their concern that EIH

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Mich., removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied L’viv, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that it was possible already in 2008 to predict that countries such as Egypt and Iran were headed for dangerous periods of instability because of citizens’ demands for democratization. The researchers were able to make this observation on the basis of a

  OSWIECIM, Poland (WJC)– A large delegation of Muslim leaders has visited Auschwitz to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others killed in the Holocaust. The group of some 150 people included representatives from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as rabbis, Holocaust survivors and Christian representatives such as Cardinals André Vingt-Trois