Mitt Romney appears destined to win Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday. For that he can thank a potent mix of brutal attack ads against his opponent, a low-risk road-tested message and oodles of cash.
Yad Vashem inaugurates Monday the new international seminars wing of the International School for Holocaust Studies, supported by Joseph Gottdenker of Canada along with Friends of Yad Vashem worldwide, and the new Edmond J. Safra Lecture Hall, donated by the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.
The leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called once again for Jonathan Pollard’s release from incarceration after visiting him in the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina.
New bill requires at least one of two Knesset representatives and one of the Israel Bar Association representatives on committee for appointing rabbinical judges to be female.
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Friday stressed the importance for his country to recognize its role in the Holocaust, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The European Union foreign policy chief and Vice-President of the European Commission Catherine Ashton, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi, signed this week at the Gaza Training Centre in UNRWA's compound a 55,4 million dollars (41,7 million euros) financing agreement towards UNRWA’s general fund.
Israeli Minister for Public Diplomacy and Diaspora, Yuli Edelstein, was in Brussels this week to attend an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the European Parliament.
As many as 4,000 anti-fascist demonstrators gathered in Vienna late Friday, organisers said, to protest against a ball attended by European extreme-right figures including France's Marine Le Pen.
