Another plenary meeting of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP) started in Brussels (Belgium) and 120 deputies from 52 countries worldwide came to the “capital of Europe”. European Jewish Parliament (EJP) was established in February 2012 as an initiative of the European Jewish Union (EJU), headed by well-known Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Igor Kolomoisky.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has denounced anti-Semitic diatribes of a respected Norwegian academic who linked Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-Muslim Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people, mostly children, last year and Israel's Mossad.

"Israel must not only defend its own borders but must also  protect Jews around the world," said the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Benny Gantz,  at an educational seminar at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Monday.

Pope Benedict XVI has paid tribute to the influence of the Bavarian Jewish community at a celebration marking his 85th birthday.

A 25-year-old Jewish man is in critical condition after being  brutally attacked by neo-Nazis on Saturday shortly after leaving the central synagogue in Kiev, the Jewish community reported.

Israel was set up as a haven for Jews whose lives were threatened, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday as he met the families of four people killed in a shooting attack against a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. 

The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled secret documents aimed at showing controversial pope Pius XII's attention to the persecution of the Jews and promised the full archives would be opened soon.

Some 22,000 Jewish people confined to ghettos under the Nazis during World War II are entitled to smaller pension payments than they initially claimed, a German federal court ruled Tuesday.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Friday apologised for Norway's role in deportations of Jews during World War II, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  

In 2012, Belgium assumes the presidency of the "International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research", which defends democratic values through educational efforts against racism and anti-Semitism.