The Bradford Synagogue in West Yorkshire, Britain was facing a dwindling population and serious financial woes when the local Muslim community reached into its pockets to save the day.

Attila Petrovszki's agent assured event organizers the fighter was no longer an active neo-Nazi, but his appearance was reportedly canceled due to 'media pressure.'

The Michurinsky congregation is the sixth operational synagogue in the Russian capital, which is home to at least 100,000 Jews, according to the European Jewish Congress.

Man detained on suspicion he aided Mohamed Merah, who killed four Jews and three soldiers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March 2012.

Growing support for an academic boycott of Israel abroad and subtle censorship at home make it hard for Israeli scholars to play a role in moving their country toward peace.

In response to groups of slaughter-hungry marauders intent on murdering Jews, the Bishop of Strasbourg formed a local band to track down the perpetrators.

The Central European University, established by Hungarian-born Jewish financier George Soros, offers a graduate program attracting students from as far afield as the U.S. and Mongolia.

A program called Minyanim is helping young Jews in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries reconnect with the religion they were cut off from under Nazi and Soviet rule - no aliyah required.

Polish officials honor Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust.

As religion penetrates politics in Hungary, efforts are being made to counter provocations against Jews and the Roma minority that have won Jobbik support among voters fed up with the country's economic crisis.