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The reconstructed Garrison Church in Potsdam, Germany (CC BY-SA 4.0 Raimond Spekking & Elke Wetzig/ wikimedia)
August 22, 2024, 5:27 pm
Germany opens reconstructed 18th-century church where Hitler cemented grip on power
‘This place challenges us’ to confront checkered past, says German president, amid protest outside inauguration of Potsdam’s Garrison Church, which communist East Germany destroyed
By Geir Moulson
A new synagogue and community center in Potsdam, Germany, dedicated on July 5, 2024, is home to four congregations. (Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
July 10, 2024, 2:31 pm
Four German congregations to share new synagogue in heart of Potsdam
Congregations will take turns using multi-denominational facility, which took some 20 years to build; synagogue is ‘a gift to us all,’ says German president
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
October 28, 2022, 5:59 pm
German university finds prominent rabbi abused power, but can return to teaching
Walter Homolka investigated by University of Potsdam over allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse of power; report recommends major administrative restructure
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Walter Homolka, former rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community's synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images)
May 9, 2022, 7:50 pm
Head of German rabbinical school takes leave after husband accused of harassment
Rabbi Walter Homolka suspends duties in Jewish community and seminary at University of Potsdam after report detailing student’s sexual harassment complaint and ‘climate of fear’
By Toby Axelrod
A view of the European Center for Jewish Learning in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam. (Walter Homolka/ via JTA)
September 6, 2021, 6:11 am
Potsdam’s stylish new synagogue is the German city’s first since WWII
Futuristic house of worship is part of the newly inaugurated European Center for Jewish Learning at the University of Potsdam, and seats about 40 in its minimalistic sanctuary
By Toby Axelrod
Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 29, 2019, 11:43 am
Jewish man wearing kippa assaulted in Germany
Police suspect two Syrian nationals of carrying out racially motivated attack
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Police close the streets around a Christmas market after a suspicious object was found in Potsdam, Germany, on Dec. 1, 2017. (Julian Staehle/dpa via AP)
December 1, 2017, 7:14 pm
German police say explosive found near Potsdam Xmas market
Bomb squad deployed, evacuate a neighborhood with police on alert following 2016 Berlin ramming attack
By AFP
Illustrative: A service at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam near Berlin. (photo credit: Margrit Schmidt)
November 19, 2013, 8:37 am
German university opening Europe’s first school of Jewish theology
President of Germany hails bachelor’s program as ‘a milestone in the history of science, but also in the history of European Judaism’
By Raphael Ahren
April 26, 2013, 6:28 pm
Dresden to get first hometown rabbi in 75 years
City’s synagogue, destroyed during Kristallnacht and rebuilt in 2001, welcomes in-house spiritual leader
Photo in the German Federal Archives depicts German Jews leaving Germany in the 1930s. (Courtesy Ethan Bensinger)
November 29, 2012, 8:27 pm
Yekke renewal: a new project ‘Traces’ the remnants of German-Jewish culture
Underwritten by a 250,000 euro grant from the German Foreign Office, a new databank seeks to preserve the last vestiges of German-Jewish life from around the world
By Lisa Pevtzow
October 12, 2012, 1:44 pm
Thousands evacuated in German city after WWII-era bomb discovered
550-pound find in Potsdam is one of tens of thousands of unexploded bombs lying underground in Germany
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