Toby Axelrod

By Toby Axelrod

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  At Berlin screening, former Israeli hostages see film about their captivity rewritten after redemption

  David and Ariel Cunio and their families received standing ovations at a screening adjacent to the Berlinale

  By Toby Axelrod Feb 22, 2026 | 5 min read
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  Berlin film festival fends off criticism after jury president Wim Wenders rebuffs calls to criticize Israel

  Author Arundhati Roy backed out of the festival after Wenders said, “We have to stay out of politics"

  By Toby Axelrod Feb 17, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Berlin rabbi convicted of ‘sexual assault and sexual coercion’ of woman he offered to counsel

  The conviction comes more than three years after the rabbi was fired by the organized Jewish community

  By Toby Axelrod Jan 23, 2026 | 3 min read
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  ‘Jews are banned from entering here!’ sign in German shop window spurs international backlash

  The shop owner in Flensburg, Germany, said he was trying to protest the Gaza war

  By Toby Axelrod Sep 19, 2025 | 2 min read
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  Cosmetics firm Weleda to examine Nazi ties amid revelation of its role in Dachau experiments

  An in-house study of the firm’s Nazi ties published last year did not uncover its role in human experiments

  By Toby Axelrod Sep 12, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Spotted in a Nazi’s daughter’s real estate ad: a painting looted from a famed Jewish art dealer

  The painting was owned by Jacques Goudstikker, who died while fleeing the Nazis in 1940

  By Toby Axelrod Aug 26, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Pioneering rabbi evicted from historic Krakow building rendered ownerless by the Holocaust

  12 Jozefa Street was a set in Steven Spielberg’s 'Schindler’s List,' half a century after the Nazis murdered its Jewish owners

  By Toby Axelrod Aug 22, 2025 | 6 min read
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  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

  By Toby Axelrod Jul 28, 2025 | 3 min read