Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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News A Berlin rabbi has been fired amid mounting allegations that he preyed on young women
“The community has promised the victims unlimited support,” said a spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Berlin
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Fast Forward Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel condemned for skipping Holocaust history conference
Organizers said the move displays her government’s attempts to whitewash the country's mixed World War II history, which includes the rescue of tens of thousands from deportation
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Fast Forward UK’s Liberal and Reform movements merge as Progressive Judaism
“‘What is the difference between Liberal and Reform Judaism’ has therefore become a question that our rabbis, cantors, lay leaders and even PR people struggle to answer,” the new alliance’s co-CEO’s wrote
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Fast Forward In Berlin, Netanyahu faces tough questions from a key ally, while Israelis abroad protest
“We are following this [judicial reform] debate very closely and — I will not hide this — with great concern,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said
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Fast Forward German rabbi at center of ongoing scandal plagiarized his dissertation, newspaper finds
Rabbi Walter Homolka’s dissertation earned him a doctorate from Kings College London in 1992
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News ‘We have to be here fighting’: Deborah Lipstadt opens up on her Poland-Germany trip with Douglas Emhoff
The historian and White House envoy has been to Auschwitz “dozens of times.” She told JTA why this trip was different
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Fast Forward Germany returns 16th-century sculpture to heirs of Jewish owner
The statue of Mary nursing an infant Jesus was owned by Jakob Goldschmidt, a prominent businessman and art collector
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Fast Forward Germany’s liberal rabbinical association expels rabbi at center of sweeping scandal
It was the latest setback for Rabbi Walter Homolka, who is accused of abusing his power at the rabbinical school he founded
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Yiddish דער קאָסאָווער רבי — אַ באַליבטער מנהיג און דיין — איז אַוועק צו 66 יאָרThe Kossover Rebbe — beloved leader and rabbinic judge — has died at 66
ר׳ שרגא פֿײַוויש האַגער איז געווען באַקאַנט פֿאַר זײַן גאונות אין הלכה און חסידות, ווי אויך פֿאַר זײַן טיפֿן עניות.