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The gatehouse at Buchenwald concentration camp. The clock is stopped at 3:15, the time of its liberation by American troops on April 11 1945 (Creative Commons/Chiode)
February 23, 2026, 11:22 am
Keffiyeh-clad anti-Zionists to protest outside Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp
"Keffiyehs in Buchenwald" will protest a court decision upholding the memorial's right to ban those wearing the Palestinian nationalist symbol from entering the camp
By JN Reporter
German soldiers march along the Arc de Triomphe in June 1940
August 21, 2023, 12:57 pm
German, Jewish, and serving in the armed forces
New BBC World Service programme features revealing interviews with German Jews who have signed up for the country's armed forces - the Bundeswehr - post WW2
By Lee Harpin
Place of Deutsche Welle in Bonn, Schürmann-Bau. (Wikipedia/Author Christian Wolf (www.c-w-design.de)/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE))
February 8, 2022, 4:43 pm
German broadcaster fires five staff after probe on workplace antisemitism
Deutsche Welle sacks numerous employees - including four from its Arabic desk - following a damning audit
By JTA
Torah scroll (Photo by Tanner Mardis on Unsplash)
December 29, 2021, 9:37 am
Sections of lost Torah scroll reappear in a German town 83 years after Kristallnacht
Protestant minister Uwe Mader handed over segments of a long lost scroll to the city of Görlitz
By JTA
A person with a flag of Israel stands next to flowers and candles in front of a synagogue in Halle, Germany, following a terror shooting on Yom Kippur in 2019 (AP Photo/Jens Meyer via Jewish News)
September 28, 2021, 11:07 am
German police officer allegedly sent fan mail to the Halle synagogue gunman
Unnamed officer has been suspended pending a further investigation into fawning letters to Stephan Balliet, who is currently serving a life sentence for killing two on Yom Kippur
By JTA
Worms Synagogue Compound now features on UNESCO’s World Heritage list 
August 12, 2021, 3:20 pm
German Jewish sites added to UNESCO list
Committee members recognised the German cathedral cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms for their role as centres of European Jewish culture in the Middle Ages.
By Jewish News
Mathias Doepfner (Wikipedia/ Source http://www.axelspringer.de/mediathek/index.html?epp=16&content_type=3&s_kategorie=21271/ Author Axel Springer AG / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/legalcode)
June 22, 2021, 1:45 pm
German publishing boss tells workers to quit if they oppose Israeli flag
Mathias Doepfner, the chairman of Axel Springer, told employees who complained about his decision to fly Israel's flag to 'look for a new job'
By JTA
Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer Bala pictured at the biennial convention of the Conference of European Rabbis in Antwerp in May 2019.
June 9, 2021, 1:11 pm
Germany appoints first military rabbi in a century
Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer Bala will supervise pastoral care for around 300 Jewish soldiers currently serving in the country’s armed forces.
By Jewish News Reporter
"The Fox" by Franz Marc (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
May 2, 2021, 9:53 am
Dusseldorf to return £13m painting to heirs of Jewish man imprisoned by Nazis
German city will give back expressionist work once owned by businessman Kurt Grawi, who was forced to flee after weeks of internment Sachsenhausen
By JTA
A Hezbollah flag during the Al-Quds rally in London in 2016 (Photo credit: Steve Winston)
May 2, 2021, 9:46 am
Berlin bans annual Al-Quds march  
'Participants unscrupulously exploit freedom of expression and assembly to spread their hatred', said the Jewish community's leader
By JTA
The Brandenburg Gate, icon of Berlin and Germany
April 24, 2021, 3:10 pm
Despite Covid lockdowns, antisemitic incidents rise in Berlin
Number of racist incidents towards Jews rose by 13 percent, despite the German capital's multiple lockdowns
By JTA
Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice via JTA)
April 24, 2021, 3:01 pm
Germany won’t prosecute 95-year-old ex concentration camp guard deported from US
Friedrich Karl Berger, who served at a sub-camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, was deported last month, will not be prosecuted because of insufficient evidence
By JTA
April 9, 2021, 11:59 am
Dusseldorf authorities to decide on fate of £20m painting
Foxes by Franz Marc was bought by banker Kurt Grawi in 1928, who sold it to pay for his escape to South America via Belgium and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
By Jewish News Reporter
People leave flowers and candles in memory of the victims of the attack in Halle, Germany
March 12, 2021, 11:53 am
Halle Jews rescue Muslim-owned kebab shop targeted in Yom kippur attack
German Jewish Student Union launched an international fundraising drive, amassing £26,000, while a local Jewish leader paid for £1,000 of kebabs in advance
By Jewish News Reporter
A surveillance camera can be seen next to a Star of David (Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa)
February 20, 2021, 2:10 pm
Assailant who beat up kippah-wearing man in front of shul evades jail
Dozens of members of the Jewish community protested the ruling in front of the Hamburg prosecutor’s office
By JTA
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