World Report

PARIS (JTA) -- A member of a Paris synagogue whose rabbi is accused of staging his own stabbing last January wrote a threatening letter to the rabbi shortly after the incident, police believe.

The man, whose identity has not been divulged, was arrested and appeared in court last week, the Le Monde daily reported Monday. Gabriel Farhi, the rabbi of Paris' Liberal Synagogue, was treated for knife wounds following an alleged stabbing outside his synagogue on Jan. 3.

Around two weeks later, he received a threatening letter regretting "that the job had not been completed."

Neo-Nazis chased out of Buchenwald site

BERLIN (JTA) -- Neo-Nazis honoring their "spiritual ancestors" were kicked out near the former site of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

The 14 members of the National Party of Germany were thrown out of the cemetery near the site earlier this week and threatened with prosecution if they return.

The activists said they were honoring S.S. guards and others who died at the camp when it was under Soviet occupation after World War II.

New clue elucidates Wallenberg case

MOSCOW (JTA) -- A Soviet double agent named Vilmos Bohm may have betrayed Raoul Wallenberg.

According to Swedish author Wilhelm Agrell, Bohm may have betrayed his friend Wallenberg to the Soviets, who arrested him in January 1945.

Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat stationed in Hungary, handed out diplomatic passes that eventually allowed more than 30,000 Hungarian Jews to survive the Holocaust.

He is believed to have subsequently died in a Soviet prison. Despite information gleaned in recent years from Soviet archives, his fate remains shrouded in mystery.

Ghetto survivors face pension deadline

BERLIN (JTA) -- Time is running out for survivors of Nazi ghettos to apply for retroactive German pensions, an advocacy group has warned.

Applications received after June 30 will not be eligible for payments going back to 1997, according to Lothar Evers, director of the German Association for Information and Support to Survivors of Nazi Persecution.

His group and its sister organization in the United States plan to introduce a telephone hotline on Monday to help potential applicants.

Those who were forced to work in ghettos, as well as widows and widowers of such survivors, are eligible for the pension, even if they already received compensation from the German government and industry fund for slave laborers, or from the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.