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Opinion The Germans have a word for what’s happening in Trump’s America
As the president lays waste to the rule of law, too many Americans are experiencing 'Gleichschaltung' — being brought into line
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Opinion What happens when a party that seeks to erase the Holocaust gains unprecedented power? Germany is about to find out.
The AfD aims for a ‘180-degree turn’ in Holocaust memory
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Opinion I’m a Jew from Germany and I fear the AfD’s triumph is only the beginning
Germany's far-right party finished second in my country's elections; next time, we may not be so lucky
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News ‘Devastating’: What Germany’s election results mean for Jews
The Alternative for Germany party's gains may threaten the country’s post-Holocaust reckoning
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Fast Forward German Jews express alarm after J.D. Vance’s comments boost far-right AfD ahead of election
AfD is topping 20% in some polls ahead of the vote on Sunday
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Fast Forward Elon Musk to far-right German political party: ‘There is too much focus on past guilt’
Musk’s virtual appearance at an AfD rally closely followed his delivery of what some saw as a Nazi salute at a Trump event
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Fast Forward German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules
The decision comes after a decade of legal wrangling over a restitution claim that is likely to be the last of its kind.
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Fast Forward JD Vance appears to defend Germany’s far-right AfD party
Vance seemed to back the flagship policy of a party that has unsettled Germany’s Jews
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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
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Fast Forward What does the election of Mark Carney mean for Canadian Jews and Israel?
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News Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him
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Fast Forward Children in Israel and beyond are dressing as Batman for Purim to honor the slain Bibas brothers
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Theater She was teenage runaway, a German rock star and Berlin leading lady — now she’s playing Leonard Bernstein
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Yiddish דער טאַיִב טעאַטער — אַ סימבאָל פֿון ייִדישער קולטור און װידערשטאַנד אין סאַאָ פּאַולאָThe Taib Theater — a symbol of Yiddish culture and protest in Sao Paulo
אין די 1960ער האָט די בינע פֿונעם „פֿאָלקסהויז“ צוגעצױגן שטערנס פֿון ייִדישן טעאַטער ווי אידאַ קאַמינסקאַ, יעקבֿ ראָטבוים און יוסף בולאָף.
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