Well-known Jewish businessman, philanthropist, and FJC President Lev Leviev visited Novosibirsk, where he took part in a celebration for the tenth anniversary of the local Ohr Avner Chabad Day School.

A religiously devout Israeli tourist sparked a bomb scare on a New Zealand ferry when he strapped boxes to himself as part of a Jewish prayer ritual, reports said Monday.

The German government is to pay € 60 million (US$ 80 million) over the coming months into a fund for the preservation of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A nearly 1,800-year-old Roman statue of a woman was discovered near Ashkelon after it was uncovered by a severe storm.

An international conference exploring ''hiding, sheltering and borrowing identities as avenues of rescue during the Holocaust'' will take place at Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem next week.

Eyewitnesses say police who entered blazing forest in order to try rescue a trapped bus of prison guards could have driven out but chose to stay.

Bill sponsored by Yisrael Beiteinu to validate all conversions conducted through the military passes despite fierce opposition from ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

The EU commends the work of the Palestinian Authority in building the institutions of the future State of Palestine and reiterates its full support for their endeavours in this regard and the Fayyad plan.

Latvian President Valdis Zatlers on Monday slammed the vandalism of a monument to a man who saved dozens of Jews during World War II, just a week after an attack on a Jewish cemetery.

Over 200 young Jews from all over Europe are expected to travel to Bucharest, Romania, the location for this year’s 'Just One Shabbat' weekend organized by the European Centre for Jewish Students.