Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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Fast Forward Germans Honored for Preserving Local Jewish History
BERLIN(JTA) – Non-Jewish Germans who have helped preserve local Jewish history, and interested young Germans in it, were honored at the 17th annual Obermayer German Jewish History Awards. Rolf Wieland, president of the Berlin House of Representatives, presented the awards – established by the late American philanthropist Arthur Obermayer – on Monday in the Berlin Senate. Virtually all awardees said they face…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denying Far-Right Party No Threat to German Democracy: Court
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s highest court has found no legal grounds to ban the far-right extremist National Democratic Party of Germany. The long-awaited decision announced Tuesday was met with disappointment from Jewish leaders in Germany and abroad. It marks the second time that the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has considered barring the NPD, which is anti-foreigner, anti-EU,…
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Fast Forward German Far Right Wing Uses Image of Iconic World War II Resistance Fighter
BERLIN (JTA) — A club supporting Germany’s right-wing populist “Alternative for Deutschland” party has raised hackles by using a World War II resistance heroine to pump up support, suggesting that Germany’s current leaders have something in common with the Nazis. “Sophie Scholl would vote for AfD” reads the advertisement posted last weekend on Facebook by a local division of AfD near…
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Fast Forward Synagogue Arson Not Anti-Semitic — or So Rules German Court
BERLIN (JTA) — A new court ruling on an old case, which calls the arson of a synagogue an expression of anti-Israel protest, has brought Germany’s legal approach to anti-Semitism under renewed scrutiny. The head of the European Jewish Congress reacted with dismay to news that a German high court recently found no procedural errors in the 2015 and…
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Fast Forward Man Suspected of Spying on German Pro-Israel Group Faces Trial
BERLIN (JTA) — A Pakistani man suspected of spying on a pro-Israel group in Germany is to be tried in Berlin, federal prosecutors announced. Identified only as “Syed Mustufa H.,” the 31-year-old man was arrested last July and charged in December with spying on behalf of an Iran-linked intelligence unit. According to the BZ newspaper, his target allegedly was the…
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Fast Forward Berlin Jews on Edge After Terror Attack — Split Over Refugees Widens
(JTA) — Even before the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, Jews in Germany were divided in their approach to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Muslim countries since 2014. Citing a Jewish moral duty to aid the displaced, many Jewish organizations, synagogue groups and individuals have rallied to help…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Missing in Berlin Market Terror Attack — Husband Injured
BERLIN – An Israeli tourist is among the injured in Monday’s terror attack in the center of the German capital. Twelve people were killed on Monday evening when a truck plowed into a Christmas market near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. At least 48 people were seriously injured. The injured Israeli tourist was in the market with his wife, who…
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Fast Forward Jewish Slave Laborer’s Holocaust Memoir Published — Courtesy of German Giant Siemens
BERLIN — One of Germany’s largest corporations – Siemens – has financed the German publication of the memoir of a former Jewish slave laborer who worked in a Siemens factory outside Auschwitz. Marcel Tuchman, 95, a renowned physician in New York, was in Berlin this week to mark the release of his translated autobiography, “Remember: My Stories of Survival and…
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