(JTA) — Pakistani security officials captured a former terrorist leader who is believed to have planned the 2002 kidnapping and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.
Qari Abdul Saeed, also known as Asadullah, was arrested Sunday by the Pakistani Sindh...
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — A Greek soccer player was banned for life from playing for the national team after giving the Nazi salute during a game. In barring Giorgos Katidis, who plays for AEK Athens, the Greek soccer federation said...
ROME (JTA) — Pope Francis sent a personal message to Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, underscoring his desire to foster Catholic-Jewish relations. The Catholic news agency Zenit said the message was dated March 13, the day that the former...
THESSALONIKI, Greece (JTA) — Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups. Samaras was speaking Sunday at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki’s Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
ASHINGTON (JTA) – Eighty-nine members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter calling on Turkey’s prime minister to retract his comments blasting Zionism.
The lawmakers, representing both houses of Congress and both political parties, sent the one-page letter to Tayyip...
(JTA) – Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian cardinal who was elected pope late Wednesday and will take the name Francis I, is said to have a good relationship with Argentinian Jews.
(JTA) — Four weeks before he murdered seven people in Toulouse, a cheerful Mohammed Merah was filmed laughing and showing off his skiing skills to friends at a popular Alpine resort.
(JTA) — London is experiencing a kosher poultry shortage as Passover approaches, as slaughtered kosher chickens have been declared unkosher in recent weeks.
The shortages are due to kashrut supervisors “finding up to 80 percent treifoth” — Hebrew for non-kosher...
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — Greek police are investigating the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party after some of its members were filmed threatening to turn immigrants “into soap” and put them in “ovens.”
The investigation announced Wednesday was prompted by the broadcast...
