Europe

Turkish daily Hurriyet reports initiative to resume meetings between ministers from Israel, six Arab countries nixed by Ankara, Cairo, who say 'it's not the right time'.

Amendment to Portugal’s 'Law on Nationality' allows descendants of Jews who were expelled in the Portuguese Inquisition to become citizens if they 'belong to a Sephardic community of Portuguese origin with ties to Portugal.'

Turkish police said Thursday that they had found evidence of a plot linked to al-Qaeda to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, a synagogue in Istanbul, and other targets.

A Far-right Hungarian priest and member of the ultra-nationalist Hungarian Jobbik Party has called on his countrymen to join what he describes as an “Anti-Bolshevik and anti-Zionist people’s gathering” to coincide with the first day of the World Jewish Congress’ annual assembly to be held in Budapest.

Jewish life has returned to a place infamous for its decimation - Oswiecim, Poland, also commonly known as Auschwitz - when dozens of young people from across Poland who recently discovered their Jewish roots came together last weekend for an educational seminar.

The Chief Rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim announced his resignation from office Thursday before a specially-convened meeting of the Central Consistoire of France. Reports suggest his resignation came at his own instigation, without the Consistoire members having called for it or having any previous warning.

A delegation of imams from Israel was on a week-long official visit to France to meet with leaders of the Jewish and Muslim communities, Ynet news website reported. 

France’s chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, has dismissed calls for him to reign on Tuesday following his recent admission to several counts of plagiarism and making the public falsely believe he was a qualified philosophy professor.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has postponed his planned visit to Gaza at the demand of US Secretary of State John Kerry, Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet  reported.

All around the world hundreds of thousands of people are commemorating Yom HaShoah, and in the UK its no different with hundreds of people gathering in London's Hyde Park to remember the fallen.