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German Court Outrage

By Editorial Board

According to the court, the three were merely attempting to draw attention to the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas.

History / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Germany / Holocaust

German Frozen Pizza Maker Returns Painting Nazis Forced Jewish Owner to Sell

By JNi.Media

The heirs did not know their painting's whereabouts before Dr Oetker contacted them, saying they were going to return it 'for moral reasons.'

Politics / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Polish Court Orders German TV to Apologize for Claiming Shared Responsibility for Auschwitz

By JNi.Media

Yad Vashem criticized the bill against blaming Poland for collaboration in the death camps, warning that its approval in parliament would be considered Holocaust denial and a regression in Poland’s efforts to face its dark past.

Politics / Police and Crime / History / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment / Germany / Holocaust

Anonymous Tip Helps Jewish Dealer's Estate Recover Two Dutch Masters from German Auction

By JNi.Media

In both cases, the sellers agreed to return the works in 'amicable discussions,' according to the Max Stern Foundation.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment / Germany / Holocaust

German Frozen Pizza Maker Reveals Nazi Art Loot in Company Collection

By JNi.Media

Rudolf-August Oetker was the grandson of Dr. August Oetker. He ran the company from 1944 to 1981.

Terrorism / Politics / Hamas / News Briefs / Turkey / Egypt / Germany / European Union

Leaked German Report Accusing Turkey of Supporting Terrorism

By JNi.Media

One MP said "the German government cannot publicly designate the godfather of terrorism Erdogan as a partner, while internally warning about Turkey as a hub for terrorism."

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Germany

German Culture Minister Promises Reform of Judenfrei Nazi Loot Commission

By JNi.Media

German Culture Minister Monika Grütters told the New York Times last March that a Jewish member on the committee “would be the only voice who would be prejudiced.”

Terrorism / Iran / News Briefs / Media / Germany

Watch: Munich Killer Ali Sonboli Had Shouting Match with German Truck Driver

By JNi.Media

"I looked from my balcony and saw him reloading his pistol. I threw my beer bottle at him. It broke on the roof.”

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Holocaust

German Jews Irate at Sale of Göring’s Silk Underpants

By JNi.Media

German law prohibits the open display of Nazi memorabilia, but not their purchase or ownership by folks who just wonder what it would be like to own the Reichsminister of Aviation's silk shorts.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Arts and Entertainment / Germany

Jewish Group Condemns German YouTube's Neo-Nazi Videos

By JNi.Media

"If I post something from Adele or Taylor Swift, you can bet it'll be gone in a few hours."

Jewish / Politics / Police and Crime / Elections / News Briefs / Islamists / Religion / Germany

German Rightwing Party Calling for Ban on Islam as Leftists Clash with Police

By JNi.Media

"An orthodox Islam that does not respect our constitution or even contradicts it is incompatible with our legal system and culture."

Israel / The Courts / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances / Arts and Entertainment / Religion

Family of German Jewish Victim Suing Israel Museum over 'Birds’ Head Haggadah'

By JNi.Media

The family’s attorney is E. Randol Schoenberg, who helped Maria Altmann successfully recover Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold," from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Germany

German Museum Displays Small Scale Expressions of Racial Hatred

By JNi.Media

It turns out Germans continue to harbor ugly feelings about people and things that are not German, and they prefer their bigotry small and intimate, away from the lime lights.

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Germany

German Gov’t Charges Local Syrian Fighter with Terrorism

By Jewish Press News Desk

The German government is cracking down on those who fight in the Syrian civil war; one who returned has been charged with terrorism.

Op-Eds

The Unpredicted Consequences of the German Elections

By Peter Martino

Because of the "5% hurdle," Germany's new coalition will tilt be to the left, while voters clearly wanted Germany to turn to the right.

Op-Eds

‘It Can Be Done’: the Rosh Hashana 1943 Escape of Danish Jews

By Dr. Rafael Medoff

Numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Norwegian Police Apologize for Deporting Jews to Auschwitz

By Malkah Fleisher

On November 26, 70 years after the rounding up and deportation of over 500 Jewish Norwegians to Auschwitz, the Norwegian Police Service issued an apology for taking part in the murder of Jews.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

French Jewish Students Taking Twitter to Court

By JTA

France's main Jewish student union reportedly has petitioned a Paris court to order Twitter to divulge details about users who post anti-Semitic comments.

Op-Eds

Is Israel’s Response ‘Disproportionate’?

By Dr. Rafael Medoff

The fact that the casualty toll from the first days of the Gaza fighting was three Israelis and 30 Arabs “underscores what critics of Israeli policy called Israel’s disproportionate use of military force,” The New York Times reported on Nov. 17.

News Briefs / Islamists

Der Spiegel: Online Jihad Cool, Getting Cooler

By Jewish Press Staff

Jihad marketers are making militant Islam cool, according to a new article in Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper.

Op-Eds

'I Will Answer Only to Allah'

By Soeren Kern

An Islamist radical convicted of stabbing two German police officers during a protest against "offensive" cartoons has been sentenced to six years in prison. Murat K, a 26-year-old German-born Salafist of Turkish heritage from the western state of Hessen, openly admitted that he had attacked and wounded the two police officers with a kitchen knife during the cartoon riots in May. He showed no remorse, however, during his trial at the district court in the city of Bonn; he said he had been morally obligated to follow Islamic Sharia law.

Iran / News Briefs

Report: Iran Planning Massive Oil Spill in Strait of Hormuz

By Malkah Fleisher

Iran may purposefully contaminate the waters of the Strait of Hormuz by performing an oil spill, according to a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel on Sunday.

News Briefs

Germany Proposes Legislation to Protect Bris Milah

By Chabad.org

After a court ruling, that brought the future of Germany's Jewish community into question, and reminded some of a darker time in German history, proposed legislation to bring resolution. After months of debate, today the German cabinet decided to establish a new legislation which will clearly enable and support the religious practice of circumcision. "It […]

Op-Eds

A Muhammed Cartoon a Day

By Daniel Pipes

Would repetition inspire institutionalization, generate ever-more outraged responses, and offer a vehicle for Islamists to ride to greater power? Or would it lead to routinization, to a wearing out of Islamists, and a realization that violence is counter-productive to their cause?

Israel / Travel / News Briefs / Europe

Winners of "Face of the German Tourist" Contest Arrive in Israel

By Malkah Fleisher

An Austrian couple is enjoying the sites in the Holy Land after winning an Israel Government Tourist Office competition for “the face of the German tourist in Israel.”

Op-Eds

J'Accuse: Shame on Germany for Circumcision Ban

By Alan M. Dershowitz

So let no one praise a nation that murdered a million Jewish babies and children for shedding crocodile tears over the plight of the poor little baby boy who, following a many thousand year old tradition, is circumcised 8 days after birth. Every good person should condemn Germany for what really lies at the heart of efforts to ban circumcision—old-fashioned anti-Semitism, a term coined by Germans for Germans and against Jews.

News Briefs / Europe

German state of Berlin Declares Circumcision, Not Brit Milah, Legal

By JTA

Berlin declares circumcision legal only if performed by a doctor. Brit Mila by a Mohel is still illegal.

Analysis

In Germany, Turkish Muslims Hope for Muslim Majority

By Soeren Kern

A recent study revealed that nearly half of all Turks living in Germany say they hope there will be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the futureIslam is becoming an increasingly important component of the value structure of Turks in Germany, especially among the younger generation of Turkish-Germans, who hold religious views more radical than their elders' views.

News Briefs / Religion

Rabbi Lau: I Didn't See Such German Sensitivity to Jewish Blood During the Holocaust

By Jewish Press Staff

Rabbi Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Holocaust Survivor, attacked the Germans today with harsh words. Rabbi Lau said, "We don't need their permission to live as Jews," and added that, "I didn't see such German sensitivity to Jewish blood in the Shoah."

News Briefs / Religion

Israel's Chief Rabbi in Germany to Help Resolve Circumcision Crisis

By Jacob Edelist

A rabbi in Bavaria, Germany, has been slapped with criminal charges of committing bodily harm, in the first known case to arise from an anti-circumcision ruling.

Analysis

Germany: 'Islamists Want to Bring Jihad to Europe'

By Soeren Kern

Underscoring German officialdom's anxiety over home grown Islamic terrorism, the German state of Lower Saxony recently published a practical guide to extremist Islam to help citizens identify tell-tale signs of Muslims who are becoming radicalized.

News Briefs

Hungarian Lawyer Seeks Indictment against Nazi Hunter Efraim Zuroff

By JTA

A Hungarian lawyer has urged authorities to charge Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff with making “false statements” against an alleged war criminal. Attorney Futo Barnabas said Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, should be indicted for leveling false allegations against Laszlo Csatary, whom police arrested last month. Zuroff gave testimonies to Budapest prosecutors […]

News Briefs

20 Bipartisan Congressmen Voice ‘Deep Concern’ over German Circumcision Ban

By JTA

A bipartisan group of 20 Congressmen sent a letter to the German government expressing “deep concern” over a recent German court decision to effectively ban circumcision on young boys. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), authored the letter, which was addressed to Peter Ammon, the German ambassador to the United […]

News Briefs

David Rakoff, Humorist, 47

By JTA

David Rakoff, a humorist who often wrote about American Jewish culture, has died. Rakoff, 47, died in Manhattan Thursday of cancer, a disease he has battled since he was 22, according to reports. A frequent contributor to National Public Radio's This American Life, Rakoff, who was Montreal-born, embraced his misfortunes with a cheerful negativity. A […]

Potpourri / Travel

Orient Impressions: China

By dvora

China assaults the senses with a cacophony of sounds and colorful sights amid its teeming masses. As we arrived for a month’s trip in October the noxious smog of vehicle-packed Beijing assailed our nostrils. But the past still dwells in the shadows of the modernized capital. At dusk a row of elderly stooped men shuffled along the road beneath our apartment in Mao-style uniforms. We would see the same gray men plodding by in the morning.

News Briefs

Report: Germany was Warned a Month Before ‘72 Olympics Attack

By JTA

Germany was warned about a possible terror attack against Israeli athletes one month before the Munich Olympics in 1972, Der Spiegel reported. The weekly magazine reported Sunday on its website that despite solid warnings of an attack plan which were received a month before the Games, no action was taken. The Palestinian terrorists, for example, […]

Analysis

Jihadi Tourism Hits Europe

By Soeren Kern

In Norway, for example, an ethnic Norwegian convert to militant Islam who has received terrorist training from al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen, is awaiting orders to carry out an attack on the West, officials from three European security agencies said on June 25. Although the terrorist-in-waiting is believed to still be in Yemen, even if he is found he cannot be extradited: under Norwegian law it is not a crime to attend a terrorist training camp.

Global / News Briefs

Chancellor Merkel Pledges to Keep Circumcision Legal

By Jewish Press Staff

After what German diplomats have described as a "disastrous" damage to Germany's image abroad, especially in light of its Nazi past, it appears that Berlin has finally gotten the message.

Israel / News Briefs / Media

More than 1.5 Million Views for Israel's Christian You Tube Channel

By Jewish Press Staff

The Ministry of Tourism's Christian You Tube channel is attracting millions of viewers from around the world. Launched at the end of 2011, the channel crossed the 1.5 million mark this week, averaging 5,500 views per day. And while these numbers are quite tame compared to the truly viral clips on You Tube, the Ministry of Tourism views the channel as an important platform in exposing Israel to the Christian world, promoting tourism to Israel at a time when some large denominations are debating boycotting Israel altogether.

Global / News Briefs

Orthodox Rabbinical Group Urging German Jews to Defy Court Ruling on Circumcision

By JTA

Europe's main Orthodox rabbinical body is urging Jews in Germany to uphold the commandment to circumcise newborn sons, despite a court ruling in Germany that said circumcising young boys could be considered a criminal act.

Israel / Global

Germans to Pay Holocaust Restitution to Former Soviet Union Victims

By Malkah Fleisher

In what the Holocaust Claims Conference is calling a “historic breakthrough”, the German government decided on Monday at pay restitution to victims of Nazi Germany now living in the former Soviet Union.

News Briefs

Over 10,000 People Sign Petition Against German Ban of Bris Mila

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Saturday Night, July 8th, the 10,000 person signed the petition against the German court's ban on Brit Mila. The petition can be found here: http://jewishpress.com/petition-against-germanys-ban-on-brit-milah/ Members of the JewishPress.com staff plan to present the petition to the German Embassy in Israel this week.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com / Yishai Fleisher

Crowning Miss Holocaust Survivor

By Moshe Herman

Yishai and Malkah talk about a recent beauty pageant for Holocuast survivors along with contrasts between new German and Israeli Laws. They also discuss a gift that was recently delivered from a fan.

Op-Eds

Choosing Shame Over Honor

By Paula R. Stern

The honor and dignity, if there can be any, goes to the Israeli athletes and to Israel itself; the shame and disgust goes to the Olympic committee. For 60 seconds, the athletes and audience and around the world, 60 seconds of silence could have been a show of triumph over terror, of honor in brotherhood and peace - instead, they will remain, 40 years late and beyond, an endless mark of shame.

Global / News Briefs

Polish Synagogue to Günter Grass: Don't Come Back

By Jacob Edelist

Nobel Prize winner author Günter Grass was asked not to visit the synagogue in Gdansk, his birthplace.

Analysis

The U.S. Politics of the Eurocrisis

By Peter Martino

If Obama and other world leaders want Merkel to keep propping up the euro with German taxpayers' money, they will have to share some of the burden. Soon, the world will have to come to the rescue of Europe, and help to bail out the eurozone. So until November, the euro's problems are Obama's problems, too.

News Briefs

Extreme-Right Politicians Expelled for Neo-Nazi T-shirts

By Jewish Press News Desk

EJP reports that eight extreme-right politicians on Wednesday were expelled from the Saxony, Germany, state parliament for wearing neo-Nazi T-shirts. The lawmakers, from the controversial National Democratic Party (NDP), were forcibly removed by police after refusing to leave on their own. The speaker of the assembly in Saxony, in formerly communist eastern Germany where NDP […]

Analysis

German BDS Movement Growing

By Soeren Kern

The BDS movement against Israel is growing in Germany, hitting the transportation, tourism, music, agriculture, . Critics say the obsession with Israel while human rights are being systematically abused in Muslim countries such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia is a reflection of anti-Semitism.

US / News Briefs

Claims Conference Employee Admits to Stealing $550K from Survivors, $57 Mil. Missing

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Zlata Blavatnik, 65, was part of a ring of 31 individuals, including Claims Conference former employees, who, over 10 years, allegedly stole $57 million in German reparation funds intended for Nazi Holocaust victims. Blavatnik is cooperating with the FBI investigation.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Global

Israel Goes Public With Cyberwar Program, Strengthens Nuclear Sub Fleet

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – Despite the absence of an attack on Iranian military and nuclear facilities, Israel and the U.S. are engaged in a covert cyberwar campaign against a growing list of Iranian targets. The dual objective is to hamper the Iranian regime’s ability to build an atomic bomb while pressuring them to bow to Western and UN demands to downgrade their enrichment capabilities to less than 10 percent.

Lessons In Emunah

German Bullies, A Milk Bucket, And Divine Providence

By Ed Lion

Judaism holds that nothing happens by chance, that everything is orchestrated by Hashem. And so it was long ago on a Sunday morning, about a month after Pesach when my father ran an errand for his parents.

Op-Eds

The Netherlands: The Holocaust As Memory Battlefield

By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

There are few societies where the contradiction between Holocaust distortion and Holocaust commemoration is as pronounced as it is in the Netherlands. This phenomenon came to the fore earlier this month on National Memorial Day, May 4, designated to commemorate the many victims of the German occupier. One hundred thousand Dutch Jews – more than 70 percent of the country’s pre-war community – were by far the largest group of victims.

Potpourri

Daughter of Telz: Rebbetzin Rivkah Bloch Hacarmi (1925-2012)

By dvora

Rivkah Bloch grew up in Telz (Telsiai), a historic township and renowned Torah center in north-west Lithuania. In 1939 the Jews of Telz numbered about 2,800, some 28 percent of the population. Rivkah’s paternal grandfather Reb Yosef Leib Bloch, (1849-1930) zt”l, also known as Maharil Bloch, was a distinguished personality and a prominent scholar and educator. Besides his position as town rabbi, he headed the great Yeshivah of Telz that his father-in-law Rav Eliezer Gordon, zt”l had founded. Its student body numbered around 400 students in 1900.

Op-Eds

Abba Kovner And The Real-Life Jewish Avengers

By Abe Novick

As moviegoers over the weekend flocked to see Marvel’s new superhero ensemble, they would understandably associate the idea of avengers with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Black Widow.

Analysis

German Cartoon Riots: Clubs, Bottles, and Stones

By Soeren Kern

After releasing all but two of the Salafists responsible for the brawl on May 5th, the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jäger, cast blame on the democratic -- and peaceful -- political party PRO NRW. He ordered police to prevent PRO NRW from displaying anti-Islam any more cartoons during the final phase of the state's regional election campaign, to be held on May 13th.

News Briefs

French Resistance Leader Raymond Aubrac Dies at 97

By Jewish Press News Desk

Raymond Aubrac, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz, and his wife, were the most celebrated couple of the French resistance, fierce underground fighters against German occupation. Aubrac’s pregnant wife Lucie famously led a daring commando raid to rescue him from the Nazis. AFP reports that President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage to "a heroic Resistance figure" […]

Analysis

Hebron: Facts on the Ground

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

When Sigmar Gabriel wrote on his Facebook page that Hebron was “an apartheid regime for which there is no justification,” the chairman of Germany’s main opposition party sparked an outcry that reverberated beyond his virtual wall. But such a conclusion is inevitable when one relies on sources and organizations that present Hebron in an extremely skewed light, like the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH).

Front Page

Please – Take Our Jews

By Dr. Ervin Birnbaum

What made the deportation of more than 80,000 Jews from Slovakia during World War II unique? It was this striking fact: In contrast with other countries, the Slovak government actually appealed to the Germans to enact deportation.

IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / Global / News Briefs

Germany Sells Israeli Navy its Sixth Submarine, 1 Year After Netanyahu Released PA Funds

By Jacob Edelist

Israel and Germany signed a contract purchasing the Israeli Navy's sixth submarine Wednesday. It is an SSK Dolphin Class submarine. Last year the newspaper The Welt am Sonntag reported that German chancellor Angela Merkel conditioned the sale of the Dolphin on Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, which Netanyahu obliged.

Analysis

The Historic Roots of Contemporary Anti-Semitism

By Peter Martino

The Jewish homeland guarantees Jews their security -- which is why every attempt to rob them of this homeland, or endanger its existence, is an anti-Semitic act endangering the entire Jewish community.

News Briefs

Illinois Republican Candidate for Congress Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Oak Lawn Patch reported that Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler's birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District. "As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international […]

News Briefs

Israel and Germany Sign Agreement for Submarine

By Jewish Press Staff

The Dolphin-class submarine will be Israel's sixth purchased from Germany.

News Briefs

Germany Grants 10 Million Euros to Yad Vashem

By Jewish Press Staff

The grant will be conveyed in yearly installments over a ten-year period.

Analysis

The Wannsee Legacy: Lessons for Genocide Prevention

By Matthias Küntzel

Let me please start with Fanny Englard, an active survivor of the Holocaust and a friend of mine. She grew up in Germany/Cologne and lives now south of Tel Aviv. Fanny wrote in a letter: “As a twenty-year-old, on 8 May 1945 I was liberated from hell and tried to find my family, but without […]

Interviews and Profiles

Rabbi Kleiman – Still The First One In Shul

By Elliot Resnick

It’s not often that I get to speak to a rabbi about to celebrate his 99th birthday.

Analysis

Iran: What Will Germany Do Now?

By Matthias Küntzel

Is the German government going to consider 0.5% of Germany’s exports more important than solidarity with the West and the special relationship with Israel?

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Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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