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Topic: German Jews

April 17, 2013
9:40 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel adresses the Knesset on March 18, 2008. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

European rabbinic body giving top honors to Merkel

Conference of European Rabbis commends German leader for protecting right to practice circumcision

March 30, 2013
1:23 am

Visitors surround Ido Porat, the first person acting as the 'Jew in a glass box', on the first day of the exhibition 'The Whole Truth … everything you always wanted to know about Jews' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, March 22, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

Exhibit of Jews in Germany raises interest, ire

‘Jew in a glass box’ show underlines, 70 years after the Holocaust, that there is no more sensitive issue in German life than the role of Jews

By Kirsten Grieshaber

March 24, 2013
6:56 pm

German Reform movement honors ex-minister

Annette Schavan receives prize for promoting academic study of Jewish theology

March 12, 2013
10:46 am

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Heaven-bound, a Torah in Wannsee

Once the Nazis planned the Holocaust at the infamous Berlin villa; now Jews are writing a Torah scroll there

By Raphael Ahren

March 4, 2013
9:05 am

A Holocaust survivor with a number tattooed on his forearm puts on Tefillin (photo credit: Flash90)

German Jews demand pensions for ghetto survivors

Community leader claims that some 22,000 elderly have been waiting for years for retroactive payments

February 22, 2013
11:39 pm

A rabbi performs a circumcision on an 8-day-old Jewish boy (illustrative photo: Max Yelinson/Flash90)

German prosecutor drops charges against circumciser

‘Good news,’ says rabbi who was indicted after a Cologne court ruled to ban ritual last year

February 18, 2013
4:38 pm

A demonstration of members of the far-right German NPD party last year (photo credit: CC BY-SA Ubiquit23, Flickr)

German-Jewish leaders argue over banning neo-Nazi party

Central Council president says NPD should have been outlawed years ago, but organization’s secretary general insists such efforts are futile

By Raphael Ahren

January 15, 2013
11:28 am

Marina Weisband at a press conference in 2011 (photo credit: CC-BY: Tobias M. Eckrich)

Jewish Pirate voted ‘sexiest politician’

Playboy survey honors Marina Weisband, although she quit her position with the German Pirate Party back in April

By Raphael Ahren

November 27, 2012
5:37 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)

Germany’s Merkel pledges support to Jewish community, Israel

Speech marks first by a chancellor to annual gathering of country’s main Jewish organization

November 3, 2012
10:13 pm

Monet painting, Poppy Field near Vetheuil (photo credit: reproduction, AllArtClassic.com)

Heir seeks Monet painting’s return

Max Emden allegedly sold ‘Poppy Field near Vetheuil,’ currently valued at $27 million, for an artificially low price as he fled the Nazis

October 26, 2012
2:15 am

In 'The Flat,' filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger and his mother, Hannah, learn disturbing family secrets in the wake of his grandmother's death. (photo credit: Courtesy IFC Films)

Israeli grandma’s shocking WWII secrets revealed in ‘The Flat’

Now screening in US theaters, documentary explores director’s disturbing discovery about his family’s German past

By David-Elijah Nahmod

October 10, 2012
1:39 pm

Tools for a circumcision procedure used at a recent ceremony in a Hasidic court in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

German government okays bill to legalize ritual circumcisions

Bundestag widely expected to vote the proposal into law soon, freeing ‘mohels’ from the threat of prosecution

By Raphael Ahren

October 4, 2012
5:16 pm

Jews perform a religious circumcision. (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Three months after circumcision ban, German government to legalize rite

Cabinet will approve a bill allowing professionally trained mohels to perform brit milah

By Raphael Ahren

September 13, 2012
6:45 pm

Berlin residents wear kippot in solidarity with a local rabbi who was brutally attacked in August (photo credit: AP/Michael Gottschalk)

German police to investigate Jewish officer who wore kippa while in uniform

Haifa-born Tuvia Schlesinger, who has been serving in the Berlin police for 32 years, said to have violated the force’s neutrality rules in showing solidarity with the local Jewish community

By Raphael Ahren

September 10, 2012
12:28 pm

Two bulls in a china shop? Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (right) and Interior Minister Eli Yishai (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israel, don’t capsize the Jewish people’s boat

The thorny debate about circumcision requires graceful measures – not the bumbling intervention of government officials

By Nadia Ellis and Dov Maimon

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