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Breaking News 83-Year-Old Attacked at German Pro-Israel March
Members of a German pro-Israel group were injured in an attack while demonstrating solidarity with three Israeli teens kidnapped in the West Bank. A complaint was lodged with local police. The incident took place at a national “Bring Back Our Boys” rally in Hamburg on June 19, organized by the Young Forum of the German-Israel…
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Breaking News Germany and Israel Will Cooperate on Nazi Looted Art
Germany and Israel agreed to cooperate on finding the heirs to art that was stolen or looted from Jews during the Nazi era. German Minister of Culture Monika Grutters and her Israeli counterpart, Limor Livnat, signed an agreement on Sunday in Jerusalem on the terms of their cooperation aimed at correcting decades of injustice, the…
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Breaking News Jewish Department Store Heirs Win $68M From Germany in Suit
Germany was ordered to pay the heirs of a Jewish department store chain nearly $68 million in restitution and interest for properties confiscated by the Nazis. The ruling by a Berlin administrative court for the heirs of the Schocken family was announced formally on Thursday, according to German news reports. The court had made its…
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Breaking News German President Gets OK To Call Neo-Nazis ‘Nut Cases’
Germany’s president did not breach the constitution when he described a far-right party as “nutcases”, the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday. President Joachim Gauck used the term last year to refer to the National Democratic Party (NPD), widely seen as made up of neo-Nazis inspired by Adolf Hitler and which last month won enough…
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Breaking News Germans Expand Pension for Ghetto Slave Workers
The German Bundestag unanimously passed legislation approving back payments of so-called ghetto pensions for Jewish survivors. The law, reflecting years of negotiations, was approved by the Federal Cabinet in April and sent to the Bundestag. It requires retroactive payments of a few hundred euros per month going as far back as July 1, 1997. Reportedly,…
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Culture Germany’s Inferiority Complex and the Holocaust
● Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust By Götz Aly Metropolitan Books, 304 pages, $30 Early in his penetrating and provocative study of the roots of German anti-Semitism, “Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust,” Götz Aly quotes…
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News German-Jewish Émigré Turns 100 — and Still Hosts Weekly East Gatherings
Gaby Glueckselig’s 100th birthday, celebrated last week at the Leo Baeck Institute for German Jewish History, represented a convergence of New York past and present, German and Austrian culture, experience and youth. For 25 years, Glueckselig’s name has been almost synonymous with the Stammtisch, a weekly German-language gathering that was started by two refugees, Bavarian…
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Breaking News ‘Stumbling Blocks’ Cobblestone Memorials to Murdered Jews Spread in Berlin
(Reuters) — Veronika Houboi watched as a man in a cowboy hat and clogs wielded a sledge hammer to smash up and remove a dozen small cobblestones from a Berlin pavement. He quickly filled the resulting hole with two identical blocks of concrete capped with inscribed square brass plates. The blocks, called “Stolpersteine” or “stumbling…
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