A Jewish Cemetery Austria’s government said Tuesday it would pay $28.5 million for the restoration of the country’s Jewish cemeteries, many of them in a sad state more than six decades after the end of the brutal Nazi era. The announcement – following a high-level meeting in the chancellery – brings to a close years of acrimony over who should fund the much-needed endeavor. It... 

Rabbi Dov Gruzman (left) pictured with former Jewish US Ambassador Ronald Lauder in 2008. A Chabad rabbi was attacked after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in Vienna. The assailant who punched Rabbi Dov Gruzman and bit off part of the rabbi’s finger following the lighting Saturday night in Stephansplatz Square was Muslim, according to reports. Gruzman, principal of the Lauder... 

VIENNA – An Austrian court has convicted a man of glorifying Nazi ideology and sentenced him to two years in prison. The court in the southern city of Klagenfurt found the 85-year-old man, who was not identified, guilty Wednesday of “re-engaging” in Nazi-era beliefs. The prosecution had accused him, among other things, of glorifying Adolf Hitler and Nazi beliefs in two books. The Austria... 

A Sikh preacher died Monday after being wounded in an attack on his temple by a group of fundamentalist Sikhs armed with knives and a handgun, police said. India’s prime minister appealed for calm as riots protesting the deadly shooting spread to several northern Indian cities. Witnesses said the Vienna temple attended by lower-caste Sikhs had been attacked by Sikhs from a higher caste who...