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Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A police car stands in front of the synagogue in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
May 26, 2023, 4:28 pm
22-year-old jailed for attempted arson attack on German synagogue
Perpetrator with far-right political views admits to smashing building’s window, trying to throw fireworks inside
By AP
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
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
Roger Waters performs at the United Center in Chicago, July 26, 2022. (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)
February 25, 2023, 7:17 am
German city cancels Roger Waters performance due to his antisemitism
Frankfurt calls former Pink Floyd frontman one of world’s ‘best-known antisemites,’ nixes scheduled performance at venue that imprisoned Jews after Kristallnacht
By ToI Staff
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
Albert Einstein, left, and Henry Morgenthau Sr., former US ambassador to Turkey, in New York on May 13, 1935, during a dinner held to raise funds for the aid of the children of German-Jewish refugees. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano)
January 21, 2023, 6:53 am
How the ‘Jewish Kennedys’ helped save 200,000 Jews in WWII and delayed Iranian nukes
A new book tells how over 150 years the Morgenthaus, a German-Jewish immigrant family, publicized the Armenian genocide, ran the US Treasury and prosecuted mobsters and terrorists
By JP O’ Malley
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
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)
December 8, 2022, 10:35 pm
German rabbi exits leadership roles as report confirms allegations against him
Investigators commissioned by main Jewish group find that possibly criminal abuse of power and sexual harassment occurred at liberal rabbinical seminary under Rabbi Walter Homolka
By Toby Axelrod
Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany, speaks during a press conference on 'Stopping anti-Semitism, joint action required from politics and civil society' at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin, Germany, November 8, 2022. (Christian Marquardt/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
December 8, 2022, 8:06 am
As extremism grows, Germany approves 1st government plan to combat antisemitism
Berlin approves program designed to fight Jew-hatred at social, political level and make local Jewish life ‘visible’; EU antisemitism chief hails ‘milestone’ for country
By Toby Axelrod
The excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt, Germany. (TLDA Ronny Krause)
November 30, 2022, 7:14 pm
Largest study of ancient DNA shows medieval Ashkenazi Jewry was surprisingly diverse
Scientists find that some 700 years ago, the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, formed 2 groups; rabbinic consultants stipulated that they study only loose teeth from pre-excavated skeletons
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A projection of the former synagogue is seen at its historical place in Dortmund, Germany, November 9, 2021, to mark the 83rd anniversary of the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogrom. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
November 9, 2022, 4:40 pm
In Germany, Kristallnacht goes by a different name. Here’s why
Many German speakers are rejecting the euphemism for the events of Nov. 8-9, 1938, which translates to ‘night of shattered glass,’ saying it omits that more than glass was broken
By Toby Axelrod
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