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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 621

Frankfurt Jews

Members of Or Tamid, an advocacy group in Frankfurt for survivors of sexual abuse, from left to right, Haleli Shomer Shalom, Roglit Ishay, Daniela Shemer and Niels Gerhardt. (Courtesy Or Tamid via JTA)
March 29, 2025, 10:27 am
Frankfurt Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure
Unprecedented third-party hotline will protect 400 employees of local institutions, after advocacy by activist group; national Jewish group may also set up a wider system
By Toby Axelrod
A woman holds a sign as she takes part in a protest against a Roger Waters concert later in the day in the Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
May 28, 2023, 6:16 pm
Jewish, local groups hold memorial, protest at Roger Waters gig in Frankfurt
Rally draws around 400 people, demonstrators read out names of 600 Jews rounded up in city on Kristallnacht, wave Israeli flags, hand out flyers to concert attendees
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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
Illustrative: Volunteers with a program now called Meet a Jew talk with non-Jewish students at a school in Frankfurt, November 5, 2019. (Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)
July 20, 2020, 5:50 am
All but eradicated in Holocaust, Frankfurt’s Jews today have a potent voice
Reduced from 30,000 to a mere 100 after WWII, the German community thrives today after an influx of outsiders have shaped the postwar city into a progressive haven
By Joe Baur
Illustrative: German police officers on guard outside the regional court in Frankfurt, Germany, September 15, 2014. (Michael Probst/AP)
February 1, 2019, 10:03 pm
Passerby severely injured trying to stop assault on Jewish man in Germany
Attacker shoved an elderly man in Orthodox Jewish garb to the ground, then badly beat man who intervened
By JTA
Illustrative: A German police officer stands guard in Frankfurt, Germany, October 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
May 13, 2018, 4:21 pm
Jewish woman found stabbed to death in Frankfurt park
Victim, 29, had been accused of fabricating stories about a mass sexual assault on New Year’s eve 2017, was due to appear in court
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 20, 2014, 7:56 pm
German kosher butcher sold non-kosher meat for years
Partners say they devised plot to stave off bankruptcy
By JTA
Protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Frankfurt, central Germany, Sunday, July 20, 2014 (photo credit: AP/dpa, Boris Roessler)
August 11, 2014, 8:47 pm
Frankfurt Jews quit interfaith council over anti-Israel statements
Islamic member of Council of Religions posted Facebook link to article charging Israel with state terrorism, crimes against humanity
By JTA
Judith Butler (photo credit: CC-BY Andrew Rusk/Flickr/File)
September 4, 2012, 7:46 am
Frankfurt under fire for giving €50,000 prize to ‘virulent Israel critic’
Berkeley philosopher Judith Butler endorsed academic boycott and accused Israeli government and media of dehumanizing Palestinians
By Raphael Ahren
Peter Feldmann (photo credit: Courtesy)
March 26, 2012, 6:13 pm
For first time since WWII, a Jew to reign over major German city
Peter Feldmann, mayor-elect of Frankfurt am Main, calls himself a liberal Jew, but says his religious beliefs are a private matter
By Raphael Ahren
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