Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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Fast Forward Horst Mahler, one of Germany’s most prominent neo-Nazis, is dead at 89
Mahler came to his right-wing antisemitism and Holocaust denial after beginning as a left-wing activist who represented a Nazi hunter
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Fast Forward Danish man was helping Iran plan attacks on Jewish targets in Berlin, police say
German authorities believe a special unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is behind the scouting operation
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Fast Forward Frankfurt’s Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure
The third-party hotline is unusual if not unprecedented for local Jewish communities, according to a U.S. advocate
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Fast Forward Jeers for Israel and a top award for a doc about hostages at Berlin film festival
Film about a hostage’s family wins best documentary, while Israel gets criticized from the stage
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Fast Forward German Jews express alarm after J.D. Vance’s comments boost far-right AfD ahead of election
AfD is topping 20% in some polls ahead of the vote on Sunday
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Fast Forward Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories
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Fast Forward German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules
The decision comes after a decade of legal wrangling over a restitution claim that is likely to be the last of its kind.
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News LA and Jerusalem rabbis step in as battle rages over who should run German rabbinical schools
Two new schools, named for the rabbis Regina Jonas and Abraham Joshua Heschel, are opening alongside two scandal-ridden ones
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