Maurice Sosnowski resigned as head of the umbrella group of Belgian Jewish organizations. The CCOJB must remain politically neutral and should not be linked to any kind of conflict of interest, he stressed.
The Jewish community of Rostov-on-Don has held its latest humanitarian campaign, which aimed to hand out shoes to the more needy members of the local community.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tells congressional commitee that Russia is balancing the security threat posed by Iran against commercial interests.
Police fear mass Haredi protests over High Court decision to jail defiant Ashkenazi parents who refuse to desegregate an ultra-Orthodox girls' school in the settlement of Immanuel.