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Fast Forward Man who stabbed Spanish tourist at Berlin Holocaust memorial sentenced to 13 years in prison
The assailant was convicted on multiple charges, including attempted murder and attempted membership in a foreign terrorist organization
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Fast Forward How Germany’s unusual approach to fighting antisemitism is ensnaring Jews who are critical of Israel
Jewish critics of the Israeli government say they will be punished by a proposed ban on pro-Palestinian slogans
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Fast Forward German anti-Zionist group’s plan to protest at Buchenwald memorial over kaffiyeh ban sparks outrage
The group “Kufiyas in Buchenwald” is set to protest in a city near the Nazi concentration camp
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Yiddish World A podcast about disappearance – and Yiddish life
Born in a Yiddish cultural space, “I Think I Saw You” asks intimate questions about visibility, loss and freedom
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Books He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
'Half-Jew — Full Life’ tells the story of Gerd “Pips” Phillipsohn's life before and after Hitler came to power.
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Yiddish World ‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
As a boy, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding
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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?
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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"
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Fast Forward Jewish groups condemn Trump’s threat that a ‘whole civilization will die’ in Iran
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Opinion Trump is backed into a corner on Iran. Get ready for him to start blaming Jews
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