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Fast Forward Who Were The Two Bystanders Killed By Thwarted Synagogue Shooter In Halle?
The man who tried to kill Jews at prayer over Yom Kippur in Halle, Germany, was unable to enter the synagogue: It was locked. So the man, an avowed white nationalist, turned his gun on bystanders, killing two people. The two victims of the #Halle attack on Yom Kippur have been identified as 40-year-old Jana…
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Fast Forward Thousands March In Berlin Against Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — More than 10,000 people marched in Berlin against anti-Semitism and in a show of support for the victims of anti-Semitic violence in the city of Halle. The march on Sunday left from Bebelplatz, significant as a site of Nazi book-burning, to the New Synagogue in central Berlin. Several thousand others marched on Saturday…
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News Letter from Germany: We Do Not Want Your Apologies
Once or twice a week, I walk with my 7-year-old son, sometimes with one of his friends, to a chess class. There’s an easy road: via Rosenthaler Strasse in Berlin’s Mitte district, past Hackescher Markt, then a right to our destination. But we don’t like the big streets – there are too many people, and…
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Fast Forward German Synagogue Attacker Reportedly Had Financial Help
(JTA) — The German man suspected of killing two people near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has confessed to the attack and said that he had anti-Semitic and far-right motives, the German federal prosecutor’s officer said. Stephan Balliet, 27, made a “very comprehensive” confession during an hours-long interrogation, according to a spokesman for the federal…
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Fast Forward ‘Graffiti Grandma’ Fined For Painting Hearts Over Swastikas In Germany
A woman in Germany was fined earlier this month for painting over neo-Nazi graffiti, after a court concluded that her actions constituted property damage, the Telegraph reported. Irmela Mensah-Schramm, a 74-year-old activist known as the “Graffiti Grandma,” has for decades painted over white nationalist slogans and symbols throughout Germany. But after she painted hearts over…
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News ‘Then We Hear A Boom’ — Inside The German Synagogue During The Attack
It was during the Torah reading on Yom Kippur morning that Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz, a visitor to the little synagogue in Halle, Germany, noticed the security guard staring intensely at his video monitor and trying to get the attention of the community president, Max Privorozki. “And then we hear a boom, like a very loud…
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Fast Forward German Synagogue Shooter Thwarted By Recently Upgraded Security Door
On Yom Kippur, 51 congregants in a Halle synagogue watched the feed from security cameras as their would-be shooter tried to break down the door. He pushed it, fired a few rounds with his gun and even attached an explosive to the jamb. The heavy wooden door wouldn’t budge, CNN reported.. The door and the…
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Fast Forward White Nationalists Praise German Synagogue Gunman As A ‘Saint’
White nationalists have praised the alleged gunman behind the attempted synagogue shooting in Germany as a “saint,” Vice reported. The praise for the shooter – who killed two people after being thwarted from entering a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on Yom Kippur – was prevalent on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service once…
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