Following the riots in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the Keren Yedidut Fellowship Foundation (otherwise known as the International Foundation of Christians and Jews) has decided to help needy Jews of Bishkek and other cities in Kyrgyzstan.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the American news network CBS on Tuesday that an Israeli military attack against Iran would be "disastrous" and that Israel must understand that "we are determined to ensure its security."

At least three Palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops on the Gaza border early Tuesday, Palestinian sources said.

Anti-Semitic incidents around the world more than doubled in 2009 over the previous year, posting their worst year since monitoring began two decades ago, according to a new survey.

Eugene Ribakoff, a philanthropist and businessman who headed the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for eight years, died last Friday at the age of 84.

Israel's prime minister used his annual address at Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony to warn about the dangers of a nuclear Iran.

A far right party, Jobbik, won 26 seats in Hungarian parliamentary elections Sunday, to the dismany of Hungarian and European Jewish leaders.

President Obama called on people to honor the memory of Holocaust victims in a statement released in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who now heads the Jewish Agency for Israel, led more than 10,000 people in the March of the Living in Poland on Yom Hashoah.

Jews in Poland joined in mourning the victims of a plane crash that took the lives of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other members of Poland's leadership.