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Fast Forward Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions
The fight over what role Rabbi Walter Homolka should play is fracturing alliances and dividing families
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Fast Forward Germany’s public broadcaster mandates that all employees support Israel’s right to exist
Deutsche Welle's revised conduct code appears to be timed to strengthen the company's hand in future employee termination cases
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Culture In Dachau, Bavaria and Berlin, a Jewish prayer and declaration resonate
Traveling through Germany, a young Jew witnesses close up what she had only known from afar
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Fast Forward How a Holocaust survivor helped make Bayern Munich a soccer powerhouse
After decades of silence, the German club has put Kurt Landauer’s legacy front and center
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Opinion I’m not Jewish. But being called “dirty Jew” shook me like no other insult
While I have always understood where antisemitism can lead, it had never reared its ugly face inches from mine.
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Culture Barry Manilow on dueling cantors, Levy’s Rye and his musical’s New York debut
Barry Manilow never meant to become a pop star, and his Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning career as a songwriter is a source of perennial tsuris for his lyric-writing partner Bruce Sussman. If you ask them, “Mandy” came, gave and (forget what you heard) did some taking. That breakout hit diverted the pair’s original ambition: writing…
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Opinion Germany denied my Holocaust survivor mother reparations — twice
When I was 34, I discovered my mother was a Holocaust survivor. My parents finally put their hellish marriage out of its misery and called it quits. In the aftermath, I came across an affidavit in which my mother was claiming financial support. In it, she stated she was born into the Jewish faith. It…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Germany
The country where Adolf Hitler came to power has a mixed history on Holocaust memory
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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