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Joe Baur

Nigerian students Funke Oluwatosin, left, and Deborah Ologbenla, right, pose for photos in Hillel sweatshirts. (Courtesy of Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz via JTA)
May 2, 2022, 4:17 am
A long, strange journey: 2 Nigerian students flee Ukraine, end up at Berlin Hillel
German Jewish community center shelters pair who were studying in Kyiv; it is now campaigning and raising funds so they can complete their medical training in US
By Joe Baur
Jamie Wei sells hamantaschen with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. (chopsticksmeetfork/Instagram via JTA)
March 8, 2022, 7:28 pm
Jewish bakers support Ukraine through their love of hamantaschen
Bakeries from Warsaw to Portland sign up for ‘Hamantaschen For Ukraine’ initiative; one notes that ‘Purim is a holiday about survival and fight’
By Joe Baur
The Central Council of Jews in Germany gave the group an award in 2020. (Omas Gegen Rechts/via JTA)
January 11, 2022, 4:32 am
In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far-right
Omas Gegen Rechts has picked up steam since starting off with 10 elderly women in 2017, and its efforts are being recognized by progressive activists and the far-right alike
By Joe Baur
Festival of Resilience participants watch a presentation. (Debi Simon for Hillel Deutschland/ via JTA)
October 6, 2021, 1:50 am
2 years after Halle synagogue attack, young Jews gather to celebrate Jewish life
The heads of Base Hillel Deutschland, an organization for young Jews in Berlin, were present at the deadly 2019 shooting. Now, they mark the event with a Festival of Resilience
By Joe Baur
Police officers on guard in front of the entrance to the Jewish Community building in Hagen, Germany, on Thursday, September 16, 2021. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)
September 25, 2021, 8:04 am
After Merkel: Antisemitism and Israel ties on Jewish minds as Germany votes
For many Jewish voters in Sunday’s election, climate change and growing social inequalities take precedence, but some Jewish issues have become national ones, and vice versa
By Joe Baur
Actor Daniel Donskoy makes a toast with guests Helene Shani Braun, center, and Laura Cazes on Germany's 'Friday Night Jews.' (Christian Pries/JTA)
August 14, 2021, 4:24 am
All clichés are on the table in German TV’s ‘Friday Night Jews’ talk show
Tied to a year-long sponsored celebration of 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany, state-sponsored program uses humor to familiarize Germans with Jewish culture
By Joe Baur
Mickey Paatzsch, left, and Arkadij Khaet on set. (Courtesy of 'Masel Tov Cocktail'/ via JTA)
February 21, 2021, 8:24 am
Short film ‘Masel Tov Cocktail’ explodes stereotypes about young Jews in Germany
The darkly comic 30-minute flick by Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch pokes fun at a society still not fully at ease with its Jews; it’s now screening at online film festivals
By Joe Baur
The German chapter of the Grandmothers Against The Right group posted about the flyer on Instagram. (Grandmothers Against The Right/Instagram via JTA)
February 11, 2021, 11:52 pm
Flyers in German tram blame Jews for pandemic
Leaflet in Cologne falsely says leading German politicians are Jewish, attacks ‘Jews in politics and media’
By Joe Baur
Protesters with old Belarusian national flags march during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, September 20, 2020. (AP Photo/TUT.by)
December 18, 2020, 6:16 am
Belarus Holocaust survivor won’t waver after hefty fine for flying protest flag
87-year-old Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who survived WWII hiding in the Urals and later became a sharpshooter for her country’s military: ‘This symbol unites our whole society’
By Joe Baur
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
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