Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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Fast Forward German University Provokes Uproar With Anti-Israel Offering
BERLIN — Following mounting protests, a controversial course on the Israeli-Arab conflict has been expunged from the syllabus at a German university. Designers of the course on “The Middle East conflict and social work,” at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony had been accused of promoting anti-Zionist ideology through…
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Fast Forward Maccabi Games Coming to Berlin — in Stadium Built by Nazis
(JTA) — They are roaring through Europe, raising dust as they go: Jewish bikers bearing an Olympic-style torch all the way from Israel to this German city. Next week, 11 riders will pull their steel steeds into Berlin’s famous outdoor amphitheater, the Waldbuehne, to help usher in the 14th European Maccabi Games — the first ever…
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Fast Forward Children of Bergen-Belsen Survivors Warn ‘Never Forget,’ 70 Years After Liberation
(JTA) — Seventy years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops, some 100 people personally touched by the history returned to the site to share their memories and warn against forgetting. Among them were children born at a displaced persons camp for survivors less than two miles from the camp. Survivors…
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Culture ‘Woman in Gold’ Success Shows German Preoccupation With Nazi Past
(JTA) — Two starkly different images: a woman wrapped in shimmering gold, a man whipped and bleeding on a cold cement floor. The first, a 1907 painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, is the centerpiece of “Woman in Gold,” a film starring Helen Mirren that had its world premiere last week at the Berlinale International…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivors Live To Tell Their Stories
(JTA) — What kept you alive? Did your non-Jewish friends reject you? Could you ever forgive? Those were some of the questions posed by Jewish young adults to Holocaust survivor Marcel Tuchman on Monday at the Galicia Jewish Museum here. “What kept me alive was having my father with me,” said Tuchman, 93, a physician…
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News Far Right Surges Across Continent as European Parliament Vote Nears
(JTA) — Armed with ropes and long sticks, a group of teens in Germany’s capital headed out under the cover of night. Their goal: to tear down from lampposts the campaign posters of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. The young people are one small posse among those who fear gains for far-right parties in the…
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The Schmooze Reunion With Father’s 300-Year-Old Violin
(JTA) — With all the recent news in Germany about the search for heirs to art taken during the Nazi era, a recent announcement about a 300-year-old violin caught my eye. A Nuremberg-based foundation for music students was hoping to find descendants of Felix Hildesheimer of Speyer — a musical instrument dealer who bought the…
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The Schmooze Holocaust Selfies Are an (Awful) Thing
(JTA) — Smiley selfies from Auschwitz and Buchenwald? They’re trending, apparently Blogger Hektor Brehl, writing for the German version of Vice magazine, has a piece about the tendency of young travelers to post pics taken at Holocaust memorials in which they show off their new sneakers and crack “uncool” jokes. Brehl collected an array of…
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