Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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News LA and Jerusalem rabbis step in as battle rages over who should run German rabbinical schools
Two new schools, named for the rabbis Regina Jonas and Abraham Joshua Heschel, are opening alongside two scandal-ridden ones
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Fast Forward Columnists resign from London Jewish Chronicle amid allegations that Gaza news was fabricated
“With the heaviest of hearts, I need to break my connection,” wrote one longtime columnist
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News A German Jewish community shadowed by scandal and an uncertain future welcomes a moment to celebrate
Rabbis and cantors are ordained at Geiger College, which has been hoping to put an investigation of its founder behind it
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Fast Forward Munich police kill man who brandished gun near Israeli consulate and 1972 Olympics massacre commemoration
German media outlets were reporting that the man killed was an Austrian teenager with suspected ties to Islamic extremism
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Fast Forward Far-right party wins German state election for first time since the Nazi era
Jewish leaders in Germany, including Holocaust survivors, say the results are worrying
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Fast Forward Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
Irmgard Furchner had appealed her 2022 conviction of being accessory to more than 10,000 murders at the Stutthof camp
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Fast Forward Prominent German cantor and opera singer is killed in what police say was a family dispute
A German news site said a son is being held after the death of Nikola David, 55, who had been cantor for Munich’s liberal Congregation Beth Shalom since 2014
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News 4 congregations will share a new synagogue in the heart of Potsdam, Germany
The building is a case study in how Jewish institutions in Germany are funded and operated
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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