A meditative documentary about Samuel Bickels, a polyglot costume drama about Karl Marx and a star-studded André Aciman adaptation are among the films to watch for at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, which kicked off on Thursday with the warmly received “Django,” a biopic about the legendary Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. When the…
Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) members voted on Monday to expel one of the party’s state leaders who criticized a memorial in Berlin to victims of the Nazi Holocaust and said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims. The AfD is expected to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag federal lower house…
A Berlin-based Israeli artist has created a jarring online visual critique of tourists who take selfies at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. YOLOCAUST, a combination of the acronym “YOLO,” which stands for “you only live once” and the word “Holocaust,” juxtaposes selfies at the Berlin outdoor monument with photographs of Nazi death camps. In one photo,…
(JTA) — Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate was lit up with the colors of the Israeli flag to show solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Israel was “moved by the gesture of the Berlin Senate” on Monday, said Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Avraham Nir-Feldklein, according to Israel’s i24 News. “We are very grateful for the…
An Israeli left comatose after being gravely injured in last month’s terrorist attack at a Berlin Christmas market awoke from his sleep this week only to learn that his wife had died in the incident. “Dalia was the love of my life,” Rami Elyakim said of his wife, talking to the Israeli Walla news site….
(JTA) – Italian police killed the main suspect in a terrorist attack that killed 12 people in Berlin, including an Israeli tourist. Police stopped the suspect, 24-year-old Anis Amri of Tunisia, for a random inspection in a Milan suburb in the early hours of Friday morning, Reuters reported. He took out a pistol and opened…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli woman missing since a terror attack in the center of Berlin has been identified as one of those killed. Dalia Elyakim, 60, was identified on Wednesday night, confirming that she was one of the 12 people killed when a truck ploughed into a crowd at Christmas market near the Kaiser…
(JTA) — Even before the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, Jews in Germany were divided in their approach to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Muslim countries since 2014. Citing a Jewish moral duty to aid the displaced, many Jewish organizations, synagogue groups and individuals have rallied to help…
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