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News Claims Conference Chair Julius Berman Calls for In-House Probe — Yet Again
February 2010 was a time of high tension for top officials at the Jewish organization that processes restitution claims for Holocaust survivors. Just three months earlier, they had discovered the existence of what would turn out to be a massive, multimillion-dollar fraud taking place at the agency, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany….
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Fast Forward Germany Agrees to Pay $1B for Home Care for Holocaust Survivors
The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos. The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $1 billion in funding for home care…
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Fast Forward Israelis Suffer Abuse at Berlin Beyonce Gig
An Israeli soldier said he was among 10 young Israelis who were subjected to an anti-Semitic verbal attack before a Beyonce concert in Berlin. The soldier, Nathanel Zerad, told JTA that the incident last week at the O2 World Stadium left him and his friends fearful. Spokespeople for the Berlin police and the concert organizer,…
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Fast Forward Composer Richard Wagner Turns 200, Still Dogged by Hatred in Beautiful Music
He was a brilliant composer, a confirmed anti-Semite and an undeniably significant influence on the history of music. And today, he would have been 200 years old. That man, of course, was Richard Wagner. “Only Jesus, Napoleon and Hitler had more written about them,” said the German newspaper Die Welt’s culture affairs critic Manuel Brug…
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Fast Forward Jewish Conductor Seeks to Mark Richard Wagner’s 200th Anniversary Without Hate
Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian Jewish conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his “Wagner Days” festival in June. Fischer, who launched his festival in 2006 in the Bela Bartok concert hall at the…
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Fast Forward Richard Wagner ‘Vile’ Anti-Semitism May Emerge in Letters From Grandson
A descendant of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, promised to hand over the correspondence of her late father to the Bavarian State Archives. Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of the composer and director of the annual Bayreuth Festival of his works, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper in Berlin that she plans to give Wolfgang Wagner’s letters…
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Fast Forward German Neo-Nazi Woman Created ‘Normality’ Around Killing Spree
A 38-year-old German woman charged with complicity in a series of racist murders played a key role in creating an air of normality around her neo-Nazi cell, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. The case of Beate Zschaepe and the National Socialist Underground (NSU), the group blamed for the murders of eight Turks, a Greek and…
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Fast Forward German Court Rejects Bias Charge in Neo-Nazi Trial
A German court rejected on Friday an accusation of bias from a defendant in a case involving neo-Nazi racist murders, removing a potential legal hurdle to resumption of the trial. The trial of Beate Zschaepe and four others opened last Monday in Munich but was quickly adjourned after defence lawyers delivered motions accusing chief judge…
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