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Fast Forward Police investigate 2 Molotov cocktail bombs thrown at German synagogue
As officers were investigating the incident on the scene, a young man raced through a police barricade toward the door of the synagogue complex and tried to pull something from his pocket
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Fast Forward Popular German author says Orthodox Jews don’t work except for ‘diamond trading’ and ‘financial transactions’
Richard David Precht apologized for the comment made on his podcast, one of the most popular in Germany
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Culture Hundreds of writers protest cancellation of Palestinian author’s event at Frankfurt Book Fair
Organizers called off an award ceremony for Adania Shibli's 'Minor Detail,' a novel based on the true story of a 1949 rape of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Germans form ‘human shield’ to protect synagogue as residents report antisemitic incidents
Despite extra security measures, many Jewish parents in Berlin reportedly kept their children at home on Friday instead of sending them to Jewish schools
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Culture As in 1940 France, Israel’s fortified border protected only a false sense of security
As Hamas terrorists crossed the divide, they recalled the time Germany breached the Maginot Line
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Fast Forward Study shows right-wing extremist attitudes on the rise in Germany
The study came days after more than 40 gravestones were overturned in a Jewish section of the town cemetery of Köthen, in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt
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News 50 years ago East Germany gained admission to the UN over one objection — Israel’s
Israel’s ambassador backed West Germany but said East Germany did not deserve to join the family of nations
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Culture Why a German anthem shouted at the US Open enraged one of the world’s top tennis players
When Alexander Zverev heard a shout of 'Deutschland Über Alles,' he understood the ugly history behind those words
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