Istipol synagogue targeted only days after reopening for first time in 65 years; according to the editor of Shalom, a Jewish weekly, 'we have emotional ties to Israel, but no connection to its policies.'

Publisher and philanthropist George Weidenfeld, who in his later years devoted himself to improving understanding between faiths and peoples, died Wednesday in London at 96. Having fled the Nazis in the 1930s, in later life he turned to helping the Middle East's Christians.