Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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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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Fast Forward European Jewish student group sues Twitter over its handling of antisemitism and Holocaust denial
The student group aims to leverage Germany’s laws against Holocaust denial to force Twitter to enforce its own policies
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Fast Forward In a twist, German rabbi at scandal’s center cedes rabbinical school ownership to Berlin Jews
The Jewish Community of Berlin had not been part of public conversations about how to extricate the seminaries from Rabbi Walter Homolka’s control
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Fast Forward Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions
The fight over what role Rabbi Walter Homolka should play is fracturing alliances and dividing families
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Fast Forward Prominent German rabbi resigns from leadership roles as report confirms allegations against him
The report was the first by third-party investigators since allegations against Rabbi Walter Homolka broke into public view in May
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Fast Forward As fear of local extremism grows, Germany approves first-ever government plan to combat antisemitism
Just days after the plan was unveiled, police foiled a plot by a network of far-right extremists to overthrow Germany’s government
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