A German Jewish community shadowed by scandal and an uncertain future welcomes a moment to celebrate
Rabbis and cantors are ordained at Geiger College, which has been hoping to put an investigation of its founder behind it
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Fast Forward Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
The 1943 protest commemorated by the monument was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare Administration
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News Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast examines the 1936 Olympics and how Hitler ‘gave us the Olympics we have today’
In a conversation with JTA, Gladwell explains Hitler’s lasting influence on the Olympics and gives his take on the veracity of calls to ban Israeli athletes from international competition
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Film & TV Babylon Berlin is famous for its attention to detail — did it get its Jewish story right?
The popular German series has religious Jews, but does it know how they practiced?
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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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Theater ‘Cabaret’ will wine, dine and destroy you
The immersive Broadway revival lulls you into comfort — to make your stomach turn
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Fast Forward A ‘Tiny House’ at Berlin’s film festival offered a safe space to talk about the Israel-Hamas war
The initiative was sponsored by the Berlinale and organized by an Israeli social entrepreneur and his Palestinian collaborator
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Forverts in English You can now hear people speaking Yiddish in bars all over Berlin
A Yiddish conversation group meets biweekly at locations around the city. Other people think they’re speaking Swiss German.
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