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Breaking News Israeli Tourism Minister Shuns Germany Due to Nazi Past
Israel’s tourism minister said he will not make an official visit to Germany due to its Nazi past. Yariv Levin of the ruling Likud party said Saturday night that the idea of a visit to Germany makes him “uneasy,” Israel Hayom reported Sunday. Levin missed a major international tourism fair last week in Berlin, where…
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Breaking News German Jews Laud Effort To Ban Neo-Nazi Party
Germany’s top Jewish organization has applauded a new attempt to ban the country’s main neo-Nazi party. Three days of hearings began Tuesday in Germany’s top court – the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe – to examine the constitutionality of outlawing the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). It would be the second attempt to…
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Breaking News Former Auschwitz Medic On Duty During Anne Frank Arrival To Be Tried in Germany
(Reuters) – A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is to stand trial in Germany on Monday, one in a series of such recent cases. Hubert Zafke was serving as a medic in the SS at the biggest death camp in…
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Breaking News Iconic German Church Candelabrum Was Actually Torah Stand
German scholars believe that a large candelabrum in a cathedral in Erfurt was originally a Torah stand made for a local synagogue in the 13th century. The team of researchers from the University of Erfurt, a city 150 miles southwest of Berlin, found that the Dom Cathedral candelabrum, in the form of a life-sized man…
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Breaking News German Jewish Cemeteries Hit by Wave of Vandalism
Acts of vandalism were reported at several German Jewish cemeteries and memorials in recent weeks. Unidentified individuals defaced dozens of “stumbling block” memorials in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district of Berlin, covering them with grey paint on Tuesday, according to police, who are investigating the incident. The small, brass blocks set into sidewalks note the last dwelling…
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Breaking News Germany’s Merkel Says Refugees Will Get the Boot Once War Over
NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx…
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Breaking News German Jews Fear Rising Anti-Semitism With Muslim Refugee Influx
BERLIN – When Judith G. helped out at a refugee center near Frankfurt last October and identified herself as Jewish, she was spat on and insulted. German Jews say the case of Judith G., a 33-year-old optician who asked not to be fully named, isn’t isolated and underlines concerns many have about the record arrivals…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitism in Germany ‘More Widespread Than We Can Imagine’ — Merkel
BERLIN — Germany must set clear boundaries in the fight against anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Anti-Semitism in Germany is “more widespread than we can imagine,” Merkel said in a conversation with Jewish media expert Oren Osterer in a podcast aired Saturday, noting several fronts: schools, social media and…
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