MOSCOW — The Jewish community of Bishkek is helping to deliver humanitarian aid to the south of Kyrgyzstan for those who are caught up in the ethnic rioting taking place there.

“We have raised money to buy 30 sacks of flour and 15 sacks of rice,” the head of the Bishkek Jewish community, Boris Shapiro, told JTA this week.

“The assembly of the Peoples of Kyrgyzstan, in which our community takes part, is sending a truck with these and other sacks of food to the Fergana Valley. This aid is meant not only for Jews but for all the people suffering there.”

Ethnic rioting in the country’s south between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks has led to the death of at least 170 people and 1,800 injuries, according to reports, though the death toll could be much higher. In addition, at least 100,000 people have been displaced.

WASHINGTON — The relationship between the Obama administration, the Netanyahu government and the pro-Israel community is ensconced on all fronts in “agree, for now” mode.

On isolating Iran, everyone agrees — and is pleased — that the new set of UN sanctions will make it easier for the US to enhance its own unilateral sanctions.

Differences are looming, however, on whether the US sanctions should carve out exemptions for countries that helped push through the UN sanctions.

On peace talks, the consensus is to move from US-brokered proximity talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians to direct talks.

That was the message Obama administration officials and US Jewish organizational leaders made forcefully last week to PA President Mahmoud Abbas during his Washington visit, and it is one that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama likely will make the centerpiece of their summit later this month.