Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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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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Fast Forward Columnists resign from London Jewish Chronicle amid allegations that Gaza news was fabricated
“With the heaviest of hearts, I need to break my connection,” wrote one longtime columnist
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News A German Jewish community shadowed by scandal and an uncertain future welcomes a moment to celebrate
Rabbis and cantors are ordained at Geiger College, which has been hoping to put an investigation of its founder behind it
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Fast Forward Munich police kill man who brandished gun near Israeli consulate and 1972 Olympics massacre commemoration
German media outlets were reporting that the man killed was an Austrian teenager with suspected ties to Islamic extremism
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