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Illustrative: A police car stands outside a court in Berlin on October 7, 2020 (Tobias Schwarz / AFP)
October 8, 2020, 11:53 am
Berlin synagogue mezuzah vandalized with swastika
‘We will not be put off by this. We Jews are here, we stay here,’ says rabbi after anti-Semitic incident
By Joe Baur
The leader of the Jewish community Max Privorozki (R) is pictured on October 10, 2019 in Halle, Germany, a day after the Yom Kippur attack outside a synagogue there in which two people were shot dead. (AXEL SCHMIDT / AFP)
September 27, 2020, 4:34 pm
A year after Halle terror attack, Jews who were there still looking for answers
A shooting that killed two on Yom Kippur last year has underscored rising anti-Semitism in Germany, but investigations in its wake reveal even more disturbing systemic shortcomings
By Joe Baur
Hetty Berg comes to her new post in Berlin after spending 30 years as a manager and curator at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. (Yves Sucksdorff/Jewish Museum Berlin/ via JTA)
September 2, 2020, 9:24 pm
New Berlin Jewish museum head says she’s focused on life in Germany, not Israel
With a predecessor forced to resign for a tweet seen as supporting BDS, Hetty Berg shifts gears, playing up a shared history to bring Jews and non-Jews to the newly reopened museum
By Joe Baur
Sasha Lurje, left, leads the Yiddish rock band Forshpil. (Marlene Karpischek via JTA)
August 31, 2020, 8:13 am
Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil brings electric guitar to the shtetl
As Latvian band releases second album, front-woman Sasha Lurje speaks about its inspirations, transition from klezmer, and its new album’s ‘dark love stories’
By Joe Baur
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
Stephan Balliet, the suspect in the Halle shooting, gets out of a helicopter at the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, October 10, 2019. (Uli Deck/dpa/AFP)
June 5, 2020, 2:19 am
German accused of Halle synagogue shooting attempts prison escape
Stephan Balliet, charged with killing 2 in Germany on Yom Kippur after failing to break into prayer service, recaptured shortly after climbing prison fence
By Joe Baur
German soldiers pictured in the German state of Saxony, May 26, 2020. (Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
June 2, 2020, 9:15 am
Rabbis can be military chaplains in Germany for first time since 1930s
Defense Ministry says up to ten ‘pastoral workers of the Jewish faith’ are to serve in armed forces; minister says move shows ‘Jewish life is self-evident in our country’
By Joe Baur
German Chancellor Angela Merkel answers the questions of deputies at Bundestag in Berlin, Germany on December 18, 2019. (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images via JTA)
May 17, 2020, 12:13 pm
Germany relaxes immigration rules for Jews from former Soviet Union
Jewish immigrants 60 and older, as well as disabled adults of any age, won’t need a forecast of integration into German society; rules for family reunification to be loosened
By Joe Baur
Award winning Chef Michael Solomonov, left, works the oven and the line at his restaurant Zahav in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 14, 2015. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via JTA)
May 14, 2020, 4:04 pm
Solomonov, Nathan join first Great Big Jewish Food Fest online
Event on May 19-28 is free and consists of workshops, happy hours and Shabbat dinners with famous foodies
By Joe Baur
The "Meet a Jew" project brings Jewish volunteers into classrooms to talk about their experiences. (Courtesy of Meet a Jew)
May 14, 2020, 3:00 pm
Central Council of Jews in Germany launches ‘Meet A Jew’ project
300 Jewish volunteers to meet with Germans, mostly in classroom settings, to ‘give Jewish people a face and a voice’
By Joe Baur
Mourners light candles on October 10, 2019, at the synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, one day after a deadly anti-Semitic shooting. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
May 9, 2020, 11:33 pm
German monitor finds rise in anti-Semitic incidents after Halle synagogue attack
Report highlights 1,253 reported incidents of Jew hatred across four federal states, including Berlin, in wake of 2019 Yom Kippur shooting
By Joe Baur
The drag queen Nana Schewitz and burlesque dancer Lolita Va Voom lead a cabaret group called Jews! Jews! Jews! (Daniel Paikov/via JTA)
April 29, 2020, 3:57 pm
How creative Jewish Berlin is adapting — and flourishing — during pandemic
From the spiritual to the culinary, Jewish life in Germany’s capital is changing rapidly
By Joe Baur
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