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A German court has upheld two convictions of a well-known neo-Nazi for...

A film about Jews’ role in opposing apartheid rule in South Africa took home the best film award as the UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF) drew to a close.

A monument commemorating Jews murdered in a small town in southern Poland during the Second World War may be removed.

The Belgian Jewish Community has filed a lawsuit challenging a law passed in May by the parliament of the Walloon region banning the kosher slaughter of animals. The lawsuit was submitted today to Belgium’s Constitutional Court by the Belgian Federation of Jewish Organizations (CCOJB), EJC's affiliate in Belgium.

Lord Provost of Edinburgh and its city council leader have pledged their personal support for a proposed £6 million Jewish cultural centre.

The mayor of the Bulgarian city of Vidin, Ognyan Tsenkov, and Roza Marinova, head of the local branch of the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria, the country’s EJC affiliate, have signed the final donation contract which will see the 19th century Vidin Synagogue pass from the ownership of the organization to the municipality.