New York's mayor may have inadvertently taken a step forward in Jewish-Muslim relations this week.

Michael Bloomberg was speaking at an event to mark the beginning of Ramadan, Islam's annual month of fasting, when he made something a slip.

An Italian blogger has attempted to start a boycott of 162 Jewish professors.

Blogger Dagoberto Husayn Bellucci, who runs Islam-Italia, an information portal for Italian Muslims, posted a list of names online with the comment: "We invite readers to make a good use of this."

Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel have become significantly more right wing and anti-Arab in the past 12 years, according to a new Haifa University poll.
Only 13 per cent of Russian-speaking immigrants polled said they were prepared to give up any territory in exchange for peace with the Palestinians. But when the research team asked the same question in 1999, some 37 per cent were.

An Islamic speaker with a "history of virulent antisemitism" plans to appeal against a decision by the Home Secretary to deport him after he breached a ban to enter Britain.

Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, spoke at three events in London and Leicester before he was detained in his hotel room on Tuesday evening, a day before he was due to share a plat

A leading United Synagogue rabbi was a guest speaker at the launch of an exhibition on Islam at London's flagship mosque.

Dayan Isaac Binstock, a member of the London Beth Din and senior rabbi of St John's Wood Synagogue, participated in last Thursday's opening of Exhibition Islam at the London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, Regent's Park.

He sits on the Council of Imams and Rab