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A view of the Israeli Embassy building in Berlin, Germany. (Screen capture Google Street View)
August 14, 2018, 3:29 pm
Israeli, US embassies in Berlin receive letters with powder
White compound in packages arrived in July; police don't say if the material was dangerous, open investigations on suspicion of disturbing the peace
By AP
Participants of the Christopher Street Day gay pride parade walk through the streets of Berlin on July 28, 2018. (Tobias SCHWARZ/AFP)
July 29, 2018, 4:51 pm
Israel opens kiosk at Berlin pride, angering an LGBT group back home
Aguda association says Foreign Ministry's attempt to promote country as a haven of equality for gay rights clashes with harsh reality
By Stuart Winer
In this June 25, 2018, photo, Laura Schulmann, center right, and Sophie Steiert, center left, listen to questions from students about Jewish daily life in Germany during a lesson as part of a project about religions at the Bohnstedt Gymnasium high school in Luckau, Germany (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 29, 2018, 3:50 pm
Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany
Central Council of Jews president Josef Schuster says the project is so successful, there are more schools requesting outreach workshops than Jewish youngsters to give them
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A 'kippah walk' in Berlin showing solidarity with Jews in the German capital on July 15, 2018 (JFNA Marketing via JTA)
July 19, 2018, 1:26 pm
American Jews lead kippah solidarity walk in heart of Berlin
Local Muslims join march through German capital amid string of anti-Semitic attacks that has community on edge
By TOI staff and JTA
German Interior Minister and Bavarian Christian Social Union politician Horst Seehofer looks on at the beginning of a party leadership meeting of the Bavarian CSU party, sister of the Chancellor's CDU, on July 1, 2018 in Munich. (AFP PHOTO / Christof STACHE)
July 2, 2018, 1:57 am
German coalition teeters as minister offers to resign over migrants
Future of Merkel's center-right government thrown into doubt as Horst Seehofer says he wants to quit after failing to trim immigration numbers
By AFP
The family of Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler: daughter Gudrun, left, wife Margaret, center, and Heinrich, right, date unknown. (German Federal Archive, Image 146-1969-056-55/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)
June 29, 2018, 3:29 pm
SS chief Himmler’s daughter worked for German spy agency
In bid for transparency about Nazi links in its past, BND reveals Gudrun Burwitz-Himmler was employed by it from 1961 to 1963, when the service had many ex-Nazis on its payroll
By AP
Illustrative: A participant wears a kippah during a 'wear a kippah' gathering to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the Jewish Community House on April 25, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)
June 27, 2018, 11:40 pm
Berlin school admits it failed to act against bullying of Jewish student
9th grader reportedly harassed with papers marked with swastikas, told to think of ancestors gassed to death in Holocaust
By JTA
The defendant, a Syrian asylum seeker of Palestinian origin, hides his face behind a folder as he waits for the opening of his trial at the district court in Berlin, where he was charged with attacking an Arab-Israeli man wearing a kippa, on June 19, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STEFANIE LOOS)
June 25, 2018, 9:00 pm
Syrian convicted of Berlin assault on Arab Israeli wearing kippa
Knaan al-Sebai sentenced to 4 weeks in juvenile detention, denies attack on Haifa man he mistook for a Jew was motivated by anti-Semitism
By AFP and TOI staff
One of the heirs of former owners, a Jewish couple who fled the Nazi regime, Felix de Marez Oyens (L) and his wife Theodora de Marez Oyens stand in front of a 15th century religious wooden sculpture during its restitution, on June 25, 2018, in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Bernd von Jutrczenka)
June 25, 2018, 7:29 pm
Berlin museum returns Nazi-looted treasure
Descendants of original Jewish owners sell priceless 15th century sculpture back to Bode Museum, where it will remain on public display
By AFP
Imam Osman Oers, front, and Rabbi Akiva Weingarten take the start on a tandem of the "meet2respect" bicycle demonstration in Berlin on June 24, 2018. (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)
June 24, 2018, 8:29 pm
Berlin: Imams, rabbis ride tandem bikes for mutual respect
Amid fears of rising anti-Semitism, religious leaders 'want to lead by good example,' with one imam calling the demonstration 'our peacekeeping mission'
By AFP
The defendant, a Syrian asylum seeker of Palestinian origin, hides his face behind a folder as he waits for the opening of his trial at the district court in Berlin, where he was charged with attacking an Arab-Israeli man wearing a kippa, on June 19, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STEFANIE LOOS)
June 19, 2018, 2:41 pm
Palestinian from Syria confesses to Berlin assault on Arab Israeli wearing kippa
'I only wanted to scare him, I had smoked some dope,' says asylum seeker, who could face verdict Tuesday
By Hannah Ruediger and Frank Zeller
Paul Alexander. (Screenshot)
June 17, 2018, 12:01 pm
On a bike, ex-child refugee retraces escape from Nazi Germany
Paul Alexander, 81, will pedal 600 miles with son, grandson and 39 others to pay tribute to Kindertransport program that saved thousands of Jewish children
By Hui Min NEO
Leni Riefenstahl directs 'Olympia,' based on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany (public domain)
June 14, 2018, 9:03 pm
The quiet absolution of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
As the Berlin Museum of Photography prepares an installation about the life of the 'Triumph of the Will' propagandist, scholars worry it validates her distorted take on history
By Matt Lebovic
Singer-songwriter John Maus, who withdrew from the Pop-Kultur Berlin international music festival on June 5, 2018, following calls to boycott the event because it receives funds from the Israeli Embassy. (YouTube screenshot)
June 10, 2018, 9:32 pm
US singer bows out of German festival amid pressure over funding from Israel
John Maus preferred 'not to play within a politicized setting' at Pop-Kultur, in face of heavy pressure from boycott groups
By Sue Surkes
British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street in London on June 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL)
June 6, 2018, 10:49 pm
Israeli official: European leaders agree Iran troops must be removed from Syria
As Netanyahu ends his visit to Germany, France, UK, diplomatic source quoted as saying there is 'widespread agreement' on ending Tehran's military presence in country
By TOI staff
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