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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise 16% In Berlin
BERLIN (JTA) – With anti-Semitic incidents reportedly on the rise in Berlin, Jewish leaders in the German capital are renewing their call for an official federal commissioner to deal with the problem. The Berlin-based Research and Information Office on Anti-Semitism, founded in 2015, reported Monday that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany’s capital has risen by 16 percent in 2016 over the previous…
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Fast Forward Dachau’s Stolen Front Gate Reading ‘Work Makes You Free’ Returned To Site
(JTA) — The iron gate of the Dachau Nazi camp, which bears the message “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work sets you free,” was returned to the site after being stolen more than two years ago. At a ceremony Wednesday, the gate was welcomed back to Dachau, where a replica was installed since the original was…
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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Scraps Cabinet Meeting With Israel Over Settlements
BERLIN (JTA) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has canceled a planned top-level joint Cabinet meeting with Israeli leaders, reportedly out of frustration over Israel’s controversial new settlements law. The binational consultation was set for May 10 in Jerusalem. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Merkel’s office offered the September national elections in Germany as the reason for the cancellation, but the chancellor appears…
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Fast Forward German Far Right Expels Leader Who Criticized Berlin Holocaust Memorial
Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) members voted on Monday to expel one of the party’s state leaders who criticized a memorial in Berlin to victims of the Nazi Holocaust and said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims. The AfD is expected to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag federal lower house…
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News Germany Says Settlement Law Shows Israel Commitment to 2 States Dimming
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Germany harshly condemned a controversial new Israeli law that retroactively legalizes settler homes built on private Palestinian land. Berlin said Wednesday that the “regulations law” undermines trust in Israel’s seriousness about reaching a compromise with the Palestinians. “Many in Germany who stand by Israel and feel great commitment toward it find themselves deeply disappointed…
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Fast Forward German Police Arrest 16 in Raids on Neo-Nazi Group
German police on Tuesday raided 15 locations in three different states where members of a far-right group that maintains the World War Two German Reich continues to exist were engaged in forging documents such as identification cards and driver’s licenses. Police said the raids were ordered after an investigation into 16 people suspected of membership…
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Fast Forward Breitbart Expansion in Europe Blocked by Domain-Gobbling Activists
As far-right leaders vie for power in France and Germany in the coming months, Breitbart was planning an expansion to those countries which might be fertile ground for its message. But that’s run into a minor snag: the domain names that Breitbart might use have been gobbled up by those opposed to its mission. “When…
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Opinion My Late Uncle’s Memories of Germany in the 1930s Haunt Me Today
Anti-Semitism had always been a part of German culture before Hitler came to power, my great uncle Ernie Lowenstein told me. But the difference was noticeable as soon as he became chancellor. You could tell right away, he recalled. I was visiting Ernie in a retirement facility in Evansville, Indiana in the summer of 1992….
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