President-elect Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that a terrorist attack in Berlin earlier that week proved him right on his instincts to constrain Muslim immigration. “You know my plans,” he told the press when asked about a possible registry or ban, outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, “All along, I’ve been proven to be…
Long after Germans pulled down monuments to Nazi rule, there remained a forest outside Berlin that each fall would commemorate the Third Reich. Planted by an unknown person, the forest in the town of Zernikow was mostly evergreen pine trees. But a few strategically placed trees belonged to a different breed and would turn yellow…
— The chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, offered condolences to the people of Germany following an apparent terrorist attack in Berlin. At least nine people died and dozens were wounded in the incident Monday evening, which police representatives in Berlin said was likely an attack. It involved a truck that hit pedestrians at a…
Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said — one an Israeli classical music superstar, one a prominent Palestinian American academic — made an unlikely pair. Yet the duo found a rich artistic and intellectual ferment in their differences born, Said told NPR’s Scott Simon in a 2002 interview, out of the fact they were “both passionate about…
BERLIN — The firing of the director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin has led to a diplomatic brouhaha in the German capital after some assert that she focused too much on Jewish topics. The Jewish Museum also has become involved in defense of Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, who was let go last week by the Polish Foreign Ministry, ostensibly…
‘It is said that the Golem lives everywhere and in all times,” wrote the Polish-Jewish writer David Frishman in 1922. Is Donald Trump the Golem of the current age? That tantalizing question is posed at the beginning of the Berlin Jewish Museum’s exhibit about Judaism’s folkloristic man of clay, starkly titled “Golem,” the name stripped…
— The American architect who designed the Berlin Holocaust memorial said that such a memorial could not be built today due to rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia. Peter Eisenman said in an interview published last week in the German weekly Die Zeit that the current atmosphere of hate in Germany and the United States would not…
BERLIN — In what one German Jewish leader is calling a “Nazi renaissance,” Germany’s newest right-populist party – Alternative for Germany – has broken the Berlin barrier, gaining seats for the first time in that state’s parliament. The anti-immigrant, euro-sceptic party that has been plagued by controversies over anti-Semitism in its ranks now has seats on legislatures in 10…
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