World Report

MOSCOW (JTA) -- A synagogue in the Russian city of Borovichi has again been vandalized, according to the Moscow office of the Anti-Defamation League.

Four windows were broken May 10. ADL officials had already sent a letter to local authorities urging them to investigate previous attacks on the synagogue, which was opened last year with help from American Jews, including those from the Bay Area.

Yahoo! in court over Nazi items

PARIS (JTA) -- A prosecutor has told a Paris court that Yahoo! should face legal penalties for allowing the sale of Nazi memorabilia on one of the Web sites it hosts.

The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism brought the case against the Internet portal in April in a bid to stop the sales from appearing in France. The judge is expected to issue a ruling next week.

Polish city honors 2 Jews, filmmaker

WARSAW (JTA) -- A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and a World War II envoy who warned the West about the Holocaust were among those named honorary citizens of the Polish city of Lodz.

In addition to Marek Edelman and then-envoy Jan Karski, film director Roman Polanski was also honored by Lodz, where some 200,000 Jews lived before World War II.

Romanian journalist sentenced for articles

BERLIN (JTA) -- A Romanian journalist accused of writing anti-Semitic articles has received a two-year suspended prison sentence.

A Bucharest court ruled that Mihai Bogdan Antonescu, 35, had written anti-Semitic articles in 1997 and 1998 in a weekly newspaper where he was deputy editor in chief. One article he wrote called members of the government "dirty Jews" and Gypsies.

Holocaust denier sentenced in France

PARIS (JTA) -- A French court has given a 10-month suspended sentence to a teacher found guilty of denying the Holocaust.

Jean-Louis Berger, a literature teacher who is also an activist for the far-right National Front, told his students last year that Nazi death camps had only been labor camps and that gas chambers were only used for delousing.

Berger's lawyers said he would probably appeal the sentence.