Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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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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Fast Forward Far-right party wins German state election for first time since the Nazi era
Jewish leaders in Germany, including Holocaust survivors, say the results are worrying
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Fast Forward Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
Irmgard Furchner had appealed her 2022 conviction of being accessory to more than 10,000 murders at the Stutthof camp
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Fast Forward Prominent German cantor and opera singer is killed in what police say was a family dispute
A German news site said a son is being held after the death of Nikola David, 55, who had been cantor for Munich’s liberal Congregation Beth Shalom since 2014
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News 4 congregations will share a new synagogue in the heart of Potsdam, Germany
The building is a case study in how Jewish institutions in Germany are funded and operated
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Fast Forward German government reports rise in extremist crimes, partly due to Israel-Hamas war
While the report says threats stemming from right-wing extremism still outweigh those coming from other ideologies, it notes “a growing danger that antisemitic agitation will increasingly poison the social climate"
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Fast Forward Success of German far-right party in EU election has many Jews hearing echoes of Nazi past
The Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, is virulently anti-immigrant and pro-Russian
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Culture Before Eden Golan sang at Eurovision, Jewish teens from across Germany performed at Jewrovision
For the last two decades, Jewrovision has annually convened what’s thought to be the largest Jewish youth event in Europe
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