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Fast Forward Hard-Right German Holocaust Deniers Tour Yad Vashem
What’s it like to go on a tour of Israel with far-righters who deny the Holocaust, but love Israel because it knows how to deal with the “Muslim problem?” Wait no longer, because an undercover reporter from Neon Magazine did that, traveling with individuals from the fringe on a trip last year to the Jewish…
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Fast Forward Mein Kampf Flying Off the Shelves in Germany
Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” — presented in a new critical edition clocking in at almost 2,000 pages — is proving to be a runaway success at the bookstore in Germany, selling more than 85,000 copies and going into its sixth print run a year after its publication. The new edition, released by the Munich-based Institute…
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Breaking News French Chief Rabbi Offers Prayers After Berlin Attack
— The chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, offered condolences to the people of Germany following an apparent terrorist attack in Berlin. At least nine people died and dozens were wounded in the incident Monday evening, which police representatives in Berlin said was likely an attack. It involved a truck that hit pedestrians at a…
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News Northwestern’s Peter Hayes Puts His Master Class on the Holocaust into a Book
For 36 years, Peter Hayes’s History of the Holocaust course at Northwestern University was the best lecture series on campus. Over the course of eight weeks, Hayes, a professor of German history, explained the Holocaust by answering a series of questions: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why didn’t the Jews fight back?…
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News In Germany, You Can ‘Rent a Jew’ to Fight Anti-Semitism
100,000 Jews live in Germany, and it’s the country with the world’s fastest-growing Jewish community. But many Germans have never – consciously – met a Jew. There’s a new project wants to change that: Rent a Jew. The Munich-based European Janusz Korczak Academy launched the project, which aims to bring together Jews and non-Jews in…
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Culture On Cult German Show, Real Rabbi Officiates TV Bar Mitzvah
If you walk through a German-speaking town next Sunday night, the odds are that the streets will literally be empty as people stay at home to watch a bar mitzvah on TV. For Germans and Austrians like me, “Tatort” (“Crime Scene”) is the holy grail of television. It’s the German equivalent of “Game of Thrones,”…
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Breaking News Germany Bluntly Urges Israel To Drop ‘Illegal’ Settlement Land Grab Bill
Germany urged Israel in unusually strong language on Wednesday to scrap legislation that would legalize Israeli settlement homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, saying this would break international law. Germany tends to be more reserved than other European nations in its criticism of Israel due to the legacy of the…
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Breaking News German Jewish Scholar: ‘Warnings Signs Are Flashing Red’ for Democracies
Western democracies are more under threat than one might think, according to a new study done by German Jewish scholar Yascha Mounk, reported The New York Times. “The warning signs are flashing red,” he told the newspaper, speaking about his research into the durability of democracy in the United States and Europe. “That’s only one…
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