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In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Dieter Graumann, leader of Central Council of Jews in Germany is pictured during a visit at the Abubakr Mosque in Frankfurt, central Germany. (AP Photo/dpa, Boris Roessler, File)
October 31, 2014, 2:03 pm
Germany’s main Jewish leader steps down
Dieter Graumann, 64, is the first person born after the Holocaust to have led German Jewry’s umbrella group
By AP
File photo of Berthold Beitz, 2012 (photo credit: Frank Augstein/AP)
July 31, 2013, 10:27 pm
German who saved hundreds of Jews in Poland dies at 99
Industrialist Berthold Beitz named Righteous Among the Nations in 1973 and honored by Germany in 2000 for actions during Holocaust
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Cartoon in Süddeutsche Zeitung depicting Israel as ravenous Moloch (photo credit: Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center)
July 4, 2013, 7:25 pm
German newspaper apologizes for ‘Moloch’ drawing
Jewish community not mollified; cartoonist angry that his artwork was used in Israel context without his permission
April 19, 2013, 5:42 pm
Blood-sucking divisive in Berlin’s Jewish community
German probe sparks inter-Jewish debate on circumcision-related ritual
March 21, 2013, 10:05 am
Jewish leader blasts German stance on neo-Nazi party
Head of Jewish community criticizes chancellor’s decision not to join efforts to ban National Democratic Party
A Holocaust survivor with a number tattooed on his forearm puts on Tefillin (photo credit: Flash90)
March 4, 2013, 9:05 am
German Jews demand pensions for ghetto survivors
Community leader claims that some 22,000 elderly have been waiting for years for retroactive payments
January 11, 2013, 1:25 am
German-Jewish leader second-guesses anti-Semitism list
Dieter Graumann says Simon Wiesenthal Center’s inclusion of German columnist trivializes more egregious members of ranking
January 2, 2013, 3:51 pm
German pol quits race over poems seen as anti-Semitic
Green Party welcomes withdrawal of candidate over ‘derogatory’ attack on ritual circumcision
December 6, 2012, 1:48 am
Germany trying again to ban ultra-rightist party
Jewish community supports move against National Democratic Party, which publicly mocks the Holocaust
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)
November 27, 2012, 5:37 pm
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 8, 2012, 6:32 pm
European court rejects PETA appeal over ‘Holocaust’ ads
Ban on German billboards that likened animals to genocide victims was not a violation of free speech, judges rule
Tools for a circumcision procedure (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
October 10, 2012, 1:39 pm
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
Illustrative photo of Jews performing a religious circumcision. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
October 4, 2012, 5:16 pm
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
People walk on a street in Berlin (illustrative photo credit: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
August 29, 2012, 7:40 pm
Skullcap-wearing German Jew sustains head injuries in brutal attack
53-year-old, reportedly a rabbi, was beaten and insulted by four youths as his six year-old daughter looked on. German Jewish Council: We will not be intimidated
By Raphael Ahren
Yona Metzger speaks to the media in Berlin, August 21 (photo credit: Markus Schreiber/AP)
August 27, 2012, 6:53 pm
German Jews slam Israeli minister, chief rabbi for interfering in circumcision dispute
You’re making matters worse, community leaders tell Yishai and Metzger. No criticism, though, for Peres’s entreaty to Merkel
By Raphael Ahren
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