An appeals court in Creteil, near Paris, upheld the convictions of 16 people for their roles in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a young French Jew, handing down sentences of up to 18 years in prison.
Karel de Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade, is in the ''Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'' list established by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center.
A religiously devout Israeli tourist sparked a bomb scare on a New Zealand ferry when he strapped boxes to himself as part of a Jewish prayer ritual, reports said Monday.
Latvian President Valdis Zatlers on Monday slammed the vandalism of a monument to a man who saved dozens of Jews during World War II, just a week after an attack on a Jewish cemetery.
A former Dutch European Commissioner sparked a storm of criticism after declaring that Orthodox Jews should consider ''emigrating to the United States or to Israel,'' because there is ''no future for them'' in the Netherlands.
Terrorist suspects arrested two weeks ago in Belgium and Holland planned to target the Jewish community with a major terror attack, a Jewish magazine said, quoting information obtained by a Dutch newspaper from judicial sources.
