Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo go back to the 19th century. His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this southern Swedish city in 1945. His wife's parents fled to Sweden from communist ...

An explosion early Friday targeted the Athens office of a neo-Nazi group, Chryssi Avghi, causing property damage, police said. There were no reports of casualties. The explosion was preceeded by a warning call to a daily newspaper, prompting the evacuation of the building prior to the 9 am (0700 GMT) blast. The neo-Nazi group's premises were on the fifth ...

The United States Thursday denounced "new forms" of anti-Semitism, saying criticism of Israel and Zionism had led to a rise of anti-Jewish sentiment around the world in 2009. "Traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism continued to arise, and a spike in such activity followed the Gaza conflict in the winter of 2008-2009," the State Department said in an annual report ...

A racially charged debate over school busing in North Carolina has turned even uglier after an education official referred to proponents of a diversity program as "animals out of the cages." The state NAACP filed a complaint against the Wake County school board Friday, arguing that ...