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Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Homolka (centre) in 2009 at Hebrew Union College
May 26, 2022, 6:54 pm
Investigations and resignations pile up amid scandal within German liberal Judaism
Suspected cover-up of “allegations of sexualised harassment and abuse of power” constitutes “the biggest scandal that has happened within the country's postwar Jewish community".
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
2DBH265 Berlin, Germany. 17th Nov, 2020. Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck is sitting on a bench in a courtroom corridor. The 92-year-old is said to have denied the Holocaust in an interview published on the Internet in March 2018. The trial for sedition began today. Credit: Paul Zinken/dpa/Alamy Live News
April 7, 2022, 10:03 am
93-year-old ‘Nazi Grandma’ sentenced to year in jail for Holocaust denial
Infamous Ursula Haverbeck failed in her appeal to overturn guilty verdicts in two separate cases in a German court.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
People place down flowers in front of a synagogue in Halle, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack Wednesday that was livestreamed on a popular gaming site. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
October 13, 2019, 2:26 pm
How Jews kept praying as a shooter loomed outside their shul in Halle 
Eyewitnesses come forward to describe the harrowing moment a terrorist attempted to enter their synagogue and commit a massacre
By Rebecca Spiess (JTA) and Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Aerial view of Berlin skyline
June 20, 2019, 11:04 am
US tourist allegedly hit in the face in Berlin after saying he was Jewish
The man suffered a black eye in the incident which police are investigating as an antisemitic crime
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Protesters gather for a far-right protest in Chemnitz, Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
September 5, 2018, 5:43 pm
German Jews call anti-foreigner riots a threat to democracy
Violent demonstrations which featured far-right and neo-Nazi protesters cause concern among members of the Jewish community
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Reichstag building in Berlin, seat of the Bundestag
January 19, 2018, 1:13 pm
Germany establishes an anti-Semitism commissioner
Four mainstream parties endorse a proposal in Germany's parliament to better deal with anti-Semitism in the country
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Einsatzgruppen members killing Jews in Ivanhorod, Ukraine, 1942. A woman is attempting to protect a child with her own body just before they are fired upon with rifles at close range.
September 29, 2017, 12:44 pm
German TV to air interviews with suspected SS death squad soldiers
Comments from alleged members of Einsatzgruppen, Kurt Gosdek and Herbert Wahler, will be broadcasted
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
German chancellor Angela Merkel.
September 25, 2017, 9:33 am
German election: Jewish leaders congratulate Angela Merkel victory and decry far-right gains
Chancellor called 'a true friend of Israel and Jews' as she wins fourth term, whilst there's concern over the AfD party who take 13.1 percent of the vote
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
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