Stephan Kramer, a Jewish leader in Germany, was named director of the American Jewish Committee’s new European Office on Anti-Semitism. Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany for 10 years, will head an initiative that aims to raise awareness about and help combat anti-Semitism. Concerns about the problem in Europe…
Stephan Kramer has resigned as secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany after serving for 15 years. Kramer will leave at the end of this month, according to a statement released Thursday by the office of Central Council President Dieter Graumann. The statement said he decided on his own to step down. Graumann…
With all of the painful history involved, the relationship between the German government and the country’s 12,000 Jews is never simple. Right now, the German Jewish community is up in arms over the government’s apparent discrimination against Orthodox Jews. Germany currently subsidizes the training of Liberal rabbis — the European incarnation of Reform Judaism —…
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