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Toby Axelrod

Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov speaks about the weekly Torah portion in this screenshot from a video posted on June 8, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 16, 2023, 7:10 pm
Berlin rabbi fired amid mounting allegations he preyed on young women
Reuven Yaacobov’s May 31 termination by the Jewish community came shortly after the claims went public, but alleged victims say complaints have been swept under the rug for years
By Toby Axelrod
File: Then-deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, Rumiana Bachvarova, right, speaks with the media prior to a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, September 14, 2015. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
June 3, 2023, 4:37 am
Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel condemned for skipping Holocaust history conference
Organizers say envoy’s decision to forgo event indicative of her government’s attempts to whitewash history on WWII round-up of 11,000 Jews in what is today North Macedonia
By Toby Axelrod
A screenshot of Roger Waters wearing what appears to be an SS uniform during a concert in Berlin, May 2023. (Twitter/ i24news screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 25, 2023, 12:57 am
In Germany, Roger Waters dons SS garb, projects ‘Anne Frank’ on screen to bash Israel
Former Pink Floyd frontman, known for antisemitic antics, draws comparison between teen killed in Holocaust and death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh last year
By Toby Axelrod
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder (center) receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis, while standing alongside CER president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (right) and Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, in Munich, May 9, 2023. (Marc Müller/CER)
May 12, 2023, 12:19 pm
Brexit forces European rabbinical group to decamp for Munich
Conference of European Rabbis has planned move from London for years, viewing need for its offices to be in heart of Europe; organization’s head says Germany is ideal location
By Toby Axelrod
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster (2nd-L) attend a commemoration service on the first anniversary of the antisemitic attack on the synagogue in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
April 27, 2023, 9:26 pm
Germany boosts annual funding for Jewish umbrella group by 70%
Increased budget for Central Council of Jews in Germany is meant to increase security and help support new Jewish Academy in Frankfurt
By Toby Axelrod
File: Rebecca Seidler, chairwoman of the Liberal Jewish Community of Hanover, Germany, in 2021. (YouTube screenshot)
April 22, 2023, 6:24 am
In Germany, new group reflects schism among liberal Jewish congregations
Jewish-Liberal Egalitarian Union splits from previous umbrella group over handling of allegations of misconduct by rabbi
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbis Charley Baginsky, left, and Josh Levy are the two leaders of the UK's new Progressive Judaism movement. (Courtesy/Liberal Judaism via JTA)
April 19, 2023, 6:56 am
UK’s Liberal and Reform movements merge to create unified Progressive Judaism
Unification comes after decades of talks aimed at joining the denominations, which have been separate for past 120 years
By Toby Axelrod
Panelists speak at the Summit of European Jewish Leaders in Berlin on March 26, 2023. (Courtesy of the JDC via JTA)
March 29, 2023, 9:00 pm
Israeli tensions spill over into Berlin at summit of European Jewish leaders
As Jews with strong ties to Israel, communities on the continent express frustration with its eroding democratic values and policies that affect them even in their own countries
By David I. Klein and Toby Axelrod
Illustrative: A service at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam near Berlin. (photo credit: Margrit Schmidt)
March 9, 2023, 2:26 pm
10 months into leadership crisis, more strife over German rabbinical schools’ future
After scandal-ridden Rabbi Walter Homolka left the schools he founded and led, the community that bought him out is sparring with Germany’s biggest Jewish group over funding
By Toby Axelrod
US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, right, speaks with 101-year-old Margot Friedländer, center, during a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Berlin, January 31, 2023. (US Embassy Berlin)
February 1, 2023, 11:01 am
Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots
US second gentleman describes meeting Holocaust survivors who recently fled war in Ukraine as ’emotional and intense,’ recalls his own grandparents’ flight to safety in America
By Toby Axelrod
This 'Statuette of Maria Lactans' was returned to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner, Jakob Goldschmidt. (National Museums in Berlin, Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art/Marion Böhl Public Domain Mark 1.0)
January 31, 2023, 4:39 am
Germany returns 16th-century statuette sold off by Nazis to Jewish banker’s heirs
Sculpture of Mary and infant Jesus had belonged to Jakob Goldschmidt, a prominent businessman persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany in 1933
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community's synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images/JTA)
January 30, 2023, 4:36 am
Germany’s liberal rabbinical association expels rabbi at center of sweeping scandal
Decision comes amid investigation into abuse of power, sexual harassment at rabbinical seminary under Rabbi Walter Homolka
By Toby Axelrod
2023 Obermayer prizewinners (left to right) Ruth-Anne Damm, Nina Taubenreuther and Sarah Hüttenberend, honored for their organization Zweitzeugen, which means 'second witness' in German and teaches young people the life stories of Holocaust survivors so they can share them with others. (Courtesy of Widen the Circle)
January 28, 2023, 12:00 am
In Germany, an American family honors locals working to preserve Jewish memory
Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Germans are presented with the Obermayer Award for projects like restoring landmarks and coming up with creative Holocaust youth education
By Toby Axelrod
Members of the European Union of Jewish Students stand outside the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, as they announce a lawsuit against Twitter over antisemitism on the platform, January 25, 2023. (Courtesy EUJS via JTA)
January 26, 2023, 4:27 am
EU Jewish student group sues Twitter over handling of antisemitism, Holocaust denial
Brussels-based European Union of Jewish Students and Berlin-based HateAid non-profit group announce lawsuit against company for failure to uphold pledge to remove hate speech
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Walter Homolka (2-R), Rector of the Abraham Geiger College, rabbi Walter Jacob (R), President of the Abraham Geiger College, and rabbi Denise L. Eger (2-L), President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany, in 2016. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images)
January 14, 2023, 4:04 am
In twist, scandal-plagued German rabbi cedes rabbinical schools to Berlin Jews
Walter Homolka suddenly sells stake in two institutions housed in the University of Potsdam after sexual harassment investigation against his husband reveals a wider abuse of power
By Toby Axelrod
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