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Ripped out stumbling stones. Pic: Initiative Stolpersteine
October 9, 2024, 12:45 pm
German Stolpersteine ‘stumbling stones’ dug up and stolen on 7 October
All 10 memorial stones to Holocaust victims of city of Zeitz ripped from the pavement on Monday
By Michelle Rosenberg
Keir Starmer meets the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on a visit to Berlin.
August 28, 2024, 12:18 pm
Starmer says UK and Germany share a ‘common commitment’ on Israel
In Berlin speech the Prime Minister accepts resolving conflict in the Middle East is 'not an easy goal'
By Lee Harpin
Tehran, Iran. 19th Nov, 2023. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah ALI KHAMENEI (R) visits the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aerospace achievement exhibition at Ashura Aerospace Science and Technology University. The exhibition includes the missile, drone, defense, and space sectors. (Credit Image: © Iranian Supreme Leader'S Office via ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE!
August 12, 2024, 4:49 pm
Britain, France and Germany issue warning to Iran
Don't escalate regional tension, Iran leaders told
By Jenni Frazer
Library of Lost Books Exhibition, Wiener Library. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg, Thursday 6th June 2024
June 7, 2024, 11:59 am
Detectives welcome on historic quest to rediscover the Lost Library of Books
Wiener Library teams up with Leo Baeck Institute to search for collection of 60,000 precious books looted by Nazis from The Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin
By Michelle Rosenberg
May 10, 2024, 2:38 pm
German sports figures mark Yom Hashoah in Israel
World Jewish Congress organisers unique delegation to mark Holocaust remembrance and meet hostages' families
By Jenni Frazer
Refugees seeking asylum. https://www.politicshome.com/
March 22, 2024, 5:21 pm
OPINION: It’s time to reform Britain’s dysfunctional asylum system
There is a desperate need for new ideas on how to create a system that works effectively and enjoys public consent, writes Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger
By Julia Neuberger
The Zone of Interest
January 24, 2024, 10:31 am
FILM REVIEW: The twilight zone between evil and ignorance
Our capacity to ignore what’s under our nose if it offends our eyes and ears ­– if it lies outside our zone of interest – is tested to breaking point and beyond in Jonathan Glazer’s unflinching new film about the commandant of Auschwitz, writes Richard Ferrer
By Richard Ferrer
Graffiti on the Berlin 'Trains to Life – Trains to Death' memorial by Frank Meisler
January 3, 2024, 11:23 am
Berlin’s Kindertransport memorial vandalised after pro-Palestinian rally
Bronze sculpture 'Trains to Life – Trains to Death' was sprayed with graffiti of what appeared to be the Al-Aqsa mosque
By JN Reporter
Yitzchak von Schweitzer and his wife Rivka at Limmud in Birmingham and (left) as a member of the Hitler Youth and of the Waffen-SS
December 29, 2023, 11:16 am
From Hitler Youth to Judaism: Yitzchak von Schweitzer tells his story at Limmud
The 97-year-old former Waffen-SS officer who lives in the UK after a long period in South Africa has spent the past 40 years as an Orthodox Jew
By Beatrice Sayers
Sonia Simmenauer
December 13, 2023, 12:20 pm
‘I would not open a Jewish cafe in Germany today’
Sonia Simmenauer opened a heimishe café in Hamburg in 2007. Things were different then
By Etan Smallman
Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.
November 9, 2023, 10:32 am
85 years on from Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they again feel unsafe as Jews
In testimonies released for the anniversary of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, survivors from around the world call out for help in fighting rising antisemitism
By Michelle Rosenberg
Daniel Sheffer with Hamburg's Chief Rabbi Bistritzky,right
September 29, 2023, 11:36 am
Torah crown looted from shul during Kristallnacht discovered in German antique shop
The crown of the Bornplatz Synagogue now has pride of place in Hamburg Jewish community's temporary shul ahead of its £113million planned reconstruction
By Michelle Rosenberg
The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht. (Wikimedia Commons)
September 29, 2023, 11:33 am
85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg
The site of the Bornplatz Synagogue was officially handed over to leaders of the city’s Jewish community on Wednesday.
By Jackie Hadjenburg (JTA)
An aerial view of the palace in Köthen, Germany. (Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Henrik Bollmann/Wikimedia Commons)
September 27, 2023, 8:57 am
Study shows right-wing extremist attitudes on the rise in Germany
A new survey indicates that 8% of people in Germany have a right-wing extremist worldview, up from 2-3% in previous years.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Memorial wall to Munich's 4,000 Jewish Holocaust victims, Ohel Jakob synagogue. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg, September 2023
September 22, 2023, 9:35 am
OPINION: Reluctant reflection: My journey into Germany’s Jewish future
Anxiously travelling to Germany for the first time, Michelle Rosenberg found a city still haunted by its past despite efforts to move into the future.
By Michelle Rosenberg
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