Hungary. For the fifth time a Jewish summer festival was held in Budapest. It included a concert of cantors, Dudu Fisher's performance, a premiere of Hendel's work "Israel in Egypt" in Hungarian, festival of Israeli cinema, week of Jewish book and gastronomic week as well.

Czech Republic. Vatslav Gavel visited some historical Jewish monuments in Prague damaged by the recent flood. During the visit to the Pinkhas Synagogue, built in the XIII century, the president expressed his regret regarding the damage caused. Two synagogues were flooded, and experts are still assessing the inflicted damage. Gavel's press secretary informed the president had notified about the catastrophe the Israeli authorities and former US Secretary of State Mrs. Madlen Albright, a Jew - native of Czech republic. He informed them that he would arrange the support for restoration works and damages' payments.

Poland. The Israeli Ambassador to Poland Shevakh Vais discovered a forgotten by everyone synagogue in a small town of Inovlodzi. Vais was passing through the city on his way to Warsaw and noticed a beautiful synagogue building the Jewish community, as it turned out, had once sold to a Polish businessman.

Vais called on the international Jewish community to help reconstruct a deserted synagogue and said it would, probably, become a 750th one in Poland.

Latvia. The burial places of Holocaust victims in the Baltic States will be plotted on a map, and every grave will be marked with a memorable sign. The vice-president of World Jewish Congress, head of Holocaust educational council, president of Inter-parliamentary council against anti-Semitism lord Grenville Jenner has told this to journalists in Riga. According to the preliminary data, there are more than 300 burial places of Holocaust victims in the Baltic States. There are 220 such places In Lithuania where during the World War II mass shootings of Jews took place. Remnants of over 200 thousand people are buried there. 79 such places are found in Latvia, and 15 - in Estonia.

Poland. Felix Lipman, one of the most famous Jewish leaders of Poland, a former captive of the Auschwitz concentration camp, passed away being 84. According to the local police, Lipman, the head of Jewish community of the city of Katovitse in Northern Poland, was found dead in his flat. The police representative Gzhegosh Oleynichek stated the reasons of his death are under investigation. "We have lost an important leader, - said Yerzhi Kishler, the head of Association of Jewish communities in Poland. - Jews of the whole world respected his opinion".