BERLIN — A group of Syrian refugee children — along with other Muslim groups in Berlin — joined with Jewish groups for a public Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony t the Brandenburg Gate. The Syrian children joined with local Jewish kids to light the giant Chabad menorah on Sunday. Aiman Mazyek, head of the Central Council of…
For the second time in a week, a U.S. World War II bomb is to be defused near Berlin’s Jewish Museum. The museum announced on its website that it will be closed on Friday while experts dispose of the bomb safely, the second time it has closed for bombs that fell during World War II…
Bolstered by Angela Merkel’s promise that Germany would take in up to 800,000 refugees this year, thousands of Syrians, Iraqis and others fleeing civil war and the violence of the Islamic State group are arriving in this country daily. On the morning of Thursday, September 10, alone, a train with 540 refugees arrived in Berlin…
I am 35 years old, but until recently, all I knew about my great-grandparents, Carl and Paula Brenner, was one vague, frightening sentence: They lived in Berlin and tried to escape the Nazis but were murdered in the camps. I grew up in Israel, and relocated to the German capital one year ago. Since becoming…
When Crossfit “guru” Dave Driskell travelled to Berlin, he decided to go visit the city’s iconic Holocaust memorial. He didn’t know what to expect — or that he probably shouldn’t pose on it and send an uplifting fitness message to his 70,000 followers. His caption on Instagram reads: “Hello Berlin, Germany. 15 hour layover. Checking the…
Melissa Perlman has participated in countless running competitions, but none were as emotional as the half marathon race in Berlin last Sunday. “To come to Germany 70 years after the Holocaust and represent Jews and take a stand for something so much bigger than ourselves was an opportunity I could not turn down,” said the…
(JTA) — Seventy-nine summers after Marty Glickman’s Olympics uniform was rendered as useless as a jilted bride’s wedding dress, his daughter Nancy wore the same uniform to light the cauldron that officially opened the European Maccabi Games here. Her late father’s removal from the U.S. track team hours before the 4×100 meter relay in the still-standing…
Seven decades after Adolf Hitler sought to stop Jews from competing in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, more than 2,500 Jewish competitors will take part in the 14th European Maccabi Games from Wednesday at the same Olympic Stadium. Germany, home to the world’s fast-growing Jewish population, is full of pride that the country responsible for…
