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Fast Forward German Amusement Park To Redesign Ride That Looks Like Spinning Swastikas
BERLIN (JTA) — An amusement park in southwest Germany’s Black Forest is redesigning a thrill ride after an online video showed that it resembled spinning swastikas. The park, Tatzmania, opened a few weeks ago in Löffingen. The ride in question, the “Adlerflug,” or “Eagle Flyer,” features four crooked arms with gondolas. A park spokesperson told the…
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Fast Forward Rabbi And Sons Attacked, Spit On In Munich
(JTA) — A rabbi and his two sons said they were spit on and verbally attacked as they left a synagogue in Munich, Germany. A man approached the rabbi, 53, and his sons, both 19, and yelled anti-Semitic slurs as they left a central synagogue on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. A woman in a…
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Culture Did Der Spiegel Run An Anti-Semitic Magazine Cover?
Critics ranging from the U.S. ambassador to Germany to the Central Council of Jews in Germany have accused the German news magazine Der Spiegel of printing an anti-Semitic cover for an issue about the country’s Jewish community. The cover for the August historical issue, titled “Jewish Life in Germany: The unknown World next door,” shows…
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Fast Forward German Historian Who Faked Family Holocaust History Dies At 31
BERLIN (JTA) – German historian and blogger Marie Sophie Hingst, whose invention of a family Holocaust history was outed in a Spiegel Magazine article in June, has died in Dublin at the age of 31. She was found dead in her apartment on July 17. Police have not confirmed the cause of death, but said…
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Culture The Culture Of Hiding: What I Learned From Concealing My Jewish Identity In Germany
A few weeks ago, as I walked with my mom through a jewelry store in my hometown of Randolph, New Jersey, she directed me to the Judaica section. “Look, Arielle,” she said, pointing at a beautiful chain with a Star of David hanging off of it. I stared at the blue-tone rhinestones which covered the…
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Opinion Israel’s Fight Against BDS Is Keeping A Failed Movement Alive
The German parliament’s passage on May 17 of a non-binding resolution condemning BDS as anti-Semitic — which secured the votes of parties from the left, right, and center of German politics — was, in a sense, a victory for Israeli interests and the country’s otherwise-entirely redundant Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy. When the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Get A Raise Under New German Compensation Agreement
(JTA) — The spouse of a Holocaust survivor will continue to receive a monthly pension for nine months after the survivor’s death under new agreements with the German government. The agreements negotiated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany also provides a $50 million increase in funding for social welfare services for survivors,…
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Fast Forward German Man Killed For Being A ‘Rich Jew,’ Witness Says
(JTA) — A Palestinian accused of killing a German man said he had targeted a “rich Jew,” a witness said during the murder trial. The 31-year-old Palestinian man, identified in court as Iyad B., is accused along with an accomplice of strangling real estate investor Michael Reicher in November. The witness, a barber, said the accused…
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