World Report

ROME (JTA) -- Police arrested a suspect in the July 18 desecration of dozens of Jewish tombs in Rome's main cemetery.

The suspect was identified as Claudio Romani, 46, who worked as an unauthorized groundskeeper in the cemetery. He was charged with extortion, contempt, desecration and damaging tombs. Five other people are under investigation for the crime.

"The apparent anti-Semitic nature" of the crime has been "proven wrong by the investigation," a spokesman for Italy's anti-terror police said Tuesday.

Moscow bomb bears anti-Semitic message

MOSCOW (JTA) -- A homemade pipe bomb bearing an anti-Semitic sign has exploded in Moscow.

The bomb, which bore the slogan "Against Jews," shattered windows in a nearby apartment building Sunday, but caused no injuries.

An Interior Ministry official called the incident "mere hooliganism," but one of Russia's two chief rabbis called it an act of terrorism. "A real war has been declared against civilized people. The time has come to take extraordinary measures against this manifestation of terrorism," said Rabbi Berel Lazar.

Einstein exhibit canceled in China

BEIJING (JTA) -- Israel canceled an exhibit on Albert Einstein that was slated to open in September in China.

Israel made the move after Chinese officials demanded that all references to his Jewishness and support for a Jewish state be removed from the exhibit, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Beijing said Tuesday.

The Chinese also wanted no reference to the fact that Einstein had been asked to become president of Israel, the spokesman added. "These three themes are very important to the biography of Einstein and can't be changed," he said.