World Report

MOSCOW (JTA) -- No one was injured in two bomb attacks near Moscow's two largest synagogues Saturday night.

The attacks did not appear to target the synagogues themselves, according to Russian officials. But Jewish leaders said that the attacks were aimed at the synagogues and that only increased security prevented more damage.

One of the shuls, the Marina Roscha, was damaged by bombs several times earlier this decade.

Canada to deport Palestinian terrorist

TORONTO (JTA) -- Canadian immigration officials last week ordered the deportation of a convicted Palestinian terrorist who entered Canada under false pretenses in 1987.

Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, threw grenades and sprayed gunfire at an El Al Boeing 707 aircraft in Athens in 1968, killing a retired Israeli naval commander.

350 neo-Nazis march through German town

BERLIN (JTA) -- About 350 neo-Nazis marched Saturday through the center of a small German town near Hamburg.

The demonstrators reportedly arrived in Ahrensburg in five buses and carried Nazi flags and banners denouncing foreigners.

Norway will pay Holocaust victims

OSLO (JTA) -- Norway has begun accepting applications for the approximately $60 million fund it created in March for Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Applicants will be eligible for as much as $25,500. For more information, write to the Ministry of Justice, Civil Department, P.O. Box 8005 Dep, 0030 Oslo, Norway.

About 2,200 Jews were arrested after Germany invaded in 1942. Of the 767 who were shipped to death camps, 30 survived.

Hungarian victims file class-action suits

BUDAPEST (JTA) -- Hungarian Holocaust victims filed two class-action lawsuits on Thursday of last week, seeking compensation for slave labor at some of Germany's largest firms during World War II.

The suits are the first legal attempts to unify Hungarian slave-labor claims. The firms targeted include German-U.S. auto giant Daimler-Chrysler, the legal successor to the wartime munitions firm AEG.