German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive a top award from Europe's Orthodox rabbinic body.

The Conference of European Rabbis, a body which represents Jewish communities across the continent, has said that it wants the IT giant Apple to pull a mobile phone application version of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called for German Jews to defy a controversial court ruling against the practice of religious circumcisions to secure a Jewish future in Germany.

Some 40 European rabbis met in Berlin on Tuesday to protest a ban on circumcision, with the group's president calling it "one of the gravest attacks on Jewish life" since the Holocaust. 

Former European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek from Poland was awarded by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) the first "Lord Jakobovits Prize of European Jury" for his efforts in support of Polish and European Jewry, during a ceremony at the main synagogue in Brussels.

Former Polish European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek will be awarded the first “Lord Jakobovits Prize of European Jewry" by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), during a ceremony to be held at Brussels’s main synagogue.

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called on French President Nicolas Sarkozy to defend ‘shechita’, the Jewish ritual slaughter, in Europe and to oppose a regulation that would introduce a labelling "which would lead to stigmatisation."