Eastern Europe

Israel's Atomic Energy Commission opens a pavilion to exhibit its civilian nuclear technology at the 60th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.

Israeli President Rivlin told Ukraine's lawmakers in a special session that his thoughts are "with my friend, Shimon Peres."

JDC and IFCJ are helping Eastern Europe's Jews for the next four years.

Around 70% of Europe's Jews say they're afraid to go to synagogue for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

The famed Great Synagogue of Pilsen is returning to Jewish hands and hearts after 20 years as a Czech concert hall and art museum.

For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry slammed the short-lived policy, saying the Palestinian Authority is “no longer satisfied with poisoning the minds of Palestinian youth. Now it wants to spread lies and misinformation among Czech youth as well.”

IAI has already entered into an agreement with the Czech company Retia to produce air defense radar systems.

Uzbekistani President Islam Karimov had led his nation since it declared independence 25 years ago; now there is a power vacuum and many citizens say they feel a double loss.

The prime minister of Turkey has announced on national television that the long-time ruler of Uzbekistan has died.

The US has been chasing after Mironov since May for the illegal transfer of US military technology to an unnamed foreign country.

Lithuanians marked the 75th anniversary of the massacre of Jews in Moletai by Nazis and local collaborators during World War II.

Before the war there were some 50 synagogues in Kolomia, among them the magnificent Hoiche Shul, a Yerushalmi synagogue, several Hassidic kloizes and even a Zionist synagogue.

More than a dozen new canines arrive for training in the Israel Police force.

Tadeusz Slowikowski, 86, is responsible for the Nazi gold train rumor and has spent much of his time since the 1950s searching for that train.

The last Polish Jew who managed to survive the Sobibor Nazi death camp has passed away at the age of 90.

The former chief of the KGB bequeaths evidence about Raoul Wallenberg for future generations, in papers found in a suitcase.

Painter Jonasz Stern left a permanent mark on the Polish art of the 20th century.

The Chief Rabbi of Poland arranged for the Pope to meet with Righteous Christian Poles at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

It's not clear what caused an explosion at an arms plant 60 miles southwest of Baku, Azerbaijan.

For the first time since the Holocaust the famous tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis had been located using new technologies for underground predictive scanning.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Waszczykowski will, visit Yad Vashem on Wednesday.

More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau have now been delivered to the Auschwitz Memorial.

The Krakow Judge wrote that "had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights."

"The Germans incessantly lied to the Jews they deported for extermination. They told them about resettlement, work and life in a different location."

Initial findings of a police investigation indicate an Israeli tourist was beaten to death with bricks in Hungary.

Two murder suspects have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the death of Jerusalem resident Ofir Gross, z'l.

The body of an Israeli student was found in Hungary over the weekend after he was missing for a week.

The Romanian parliament is set to ease the way for Holocaust survivors to reclaim their stolen property.

"Who 30 years ago in this country would have pretended to be a rabbi, to say nothing of 70 years ago?"