This is the Forward’s coverage of the modern nation of Germany, the successor state to Nazi Germany, which perpetrated the Holocaust during World War II.
Germany
The Latest
-
Opinion As Trump officials cozy up to Germany’s far right, everything alt is neu again
As AfD continues to court Trump and his MAGA movement, how worried should American Jews be?
-
Fast Forward German auction house calls off ‘shameless’ sale of concentration camp artifacts
Survivors objected to the sale of victims’ belongings and a yellow Star of David with “signs of wear"
-
Yiddish World A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band
-
Yiddish World A German museum aimed to honor Jewish wit. The result is downright demeaning.
The Haus der Kunst in Munich now has Yiddish insults mounted on its cornice
-
Culture How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis
Germany has made remembering the Holocaust central, but that commitment has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany loses its memory?
-
Fast Forward German government pledges record $1B in funding for Holocaust survivor home care
The sum reflects a recognition that an aging survivor population has growing needs
-
Opinion Germany excels at restoring synagogues destroyed by the Nazis. But can they foster new Jewish life?
Munich's Reichenbachstrasse Synagogue shines again. But unless it hosts regular prayer, it’s just a museum with a bimah
-
Fast Forward 3 suspected Hamas members arrested in Germany for plotting attacks on Jews, Israelis
Mossad said it had coordinated on the arrests as part of a broad effort in Europe
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
- 2
Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
- 3
Culture She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
- 4
Fast Forward Cory Booker has long embraced Jewish tradition. Now he has married a Jewish woman.
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Hostage’s remains returned to Israel, as Trump says Gaza ceasefire’s next phase is ‘going to happen pretty soon’
-
Fast Forward NYC synagogue protest leads to a new bill, and a rally by Jewish groups outside Park East shul
-
Fast Forward LA synagogue protest leads to two arrests as mayor deploys extra police outside event that featured Israeli defense firm
-
Film & TV In ‘The Secret Agent,’ a peek into Brazilian Jewish history — and a warning against propaganda
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
