(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…
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…
