The Middle East washes over Berlin
Jewish Journal
February 23, 2016
It is said that art reflects life. If so, the Middle East seems to be taking over Europe.
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German far-right’s language is close to that of Nazis, Gabriel says
Jewish Journal
February 5, 2016
Germany\’s far-right, led by the rising anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is using language similar to that deployed by Hitler\’s Nazis, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday.
Nazi menace overtakes siblings in different ways in ‘My Sister’
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2016
In addition to exterminating millions of Jews, the Nazis also targeted the mentally and physically disabled under their eugenics program, aimed at weeding out people they considered genetically unfit.
Germany accuses two Palestinians of planning attack on Israeli embassy
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2015
Two young men of Palestinian descent are on trial in Germany for planning to bomb the Israeli embassy in Berlin or other Israeli targets, a criminal court spokesman said on Wednesday.
German politician charged for publicly displaying Auschwitz tattoo
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2015
A far-right German politician has been charged with incitement for publicly displaying a large tattoo of the Auschwitz death camp on his back.
‘They’ll think we are the enemy’: refugees in Germany fear backlash
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2015
Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Germany fear that the attacks in Paris could further shift public opinion against the Berlin government\’s welcoming asylum policy.
The truth about Jerusalem’s grand mufti, Hitler and the Holocaust
Jewish Journal
October 21, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went too far in recent comments that Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem before and during World War II, played a “central role in fomenting the Final Solution” by trying to convince Hitler to destroy the Jews during a 1941 meeting in Berlin.
German Holocaust film ‘Phoenix’ examines life after death camps
Tom Tugend
July 29, 2015
The phoenix is a mythical firebird that lives for centuries, dies in flames and then rises from its ashes to start life anew.
Maccabi Games to play at Olympic venues built by Nazis
Jewish Journal
July 27, 2015
They are roaring through Europe, raising dust as they go: Jewish bikers bearing an Olympic-style torch all the way from Israel to Berlin.
Reflections on the Charleston murders from Berlin: A conscience
Rabbi Mordecai Finley
June 22, 2015
I was sitting at the lunch tables yesterday here at the language school in Berlin, checking the news, when I read of the massacre at Emanuel AME in Charleston.
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