New Year’s revelers shot fireworks and urinated in Germany’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin. But memorial staff members have vowed to put a stop to the desecration. Reacting to a shocking video of young party-goers celebrating among the 2711 steles of the memorial last week, spokesperson Jenifer Stolz told JTA that “we are all quite appalled….
In April, a glass case in Berlin upset and polarized the Jewish world. An exhibit at the Jewish Museum, entitled “The Whole Truth… Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Jews,” included an installation consisting of a half-open glass case with the question “Are there still Jews in Germany?“ printed on it. On a bench…
By moving back to Berlin three years ago, Margot Friedlander, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, has become an unlikely celebrity in the land where she was once persecuted. In 1946, when she immigrated to New York with her husband, they both vowed never to set foot again in Germany. Most members of both their families were…
Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller was buried in a Jewish mass grave following World War II, a Berlin political scientist confirmed. Muller, who as head of Nazi Germany’s secret police helped organize the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, was buried with about 2,400 others, many unidentified, in the Jewish cemetery on Grosse Hamburgerstrasse in…
Keren Shahar-Karbe’s Israeli Shakshuka with Feta Cheese: Ingredients (Serves 2): 6 tablespoons vegetable oil (not olive oil) 1 diced red paprika 4 grounded garlic cloves 5 very ripe diced tomatoes 1 tablespoon of tomato paste 120 ml water 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika 1-2 chopped hot dry chilisea salt ¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder 80…
It could be just another store renovation in Berlin’s thriving Mitte-district. But Keren Shahar-Karbe is beaming as she walks through the empty rooms of a former art gallery. Some walls have holes and cables stick out of them. “So much has already changed,” Shahar-Karbe said, visibly excited. In September, the 34-year-old Israeli started renovating the…
Germany’s largest Jewish communal organization, the Berlin Juedische Gemeinde, is nearly dysfunctional. “We are at the edge of chaos,” said Rabbi Josh Spinner, executive vice president and CEO in Berlin of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. “All the world’s Jews should care about this.” Claudia Keller, writing in the respected newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, observed that…
Rochus Misch, the last surviving witness of Adolf Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker who always referred to the Nazi dictator as “the Boss”, has died in his home at the age of 96, his book agent said on Friday. Misch, who told Reuters in a 2007 interview at his home that there was…
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