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On Sunday, the White House staff let the Israelis know they were fuming, and unable to understand how Israel chooses to attack the president in the midst of negotiating the biggest military aid package.
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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.”
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The boorish voice in this incident belonged to Obama. As a NY Post editorial put it, "What could President Obama have been thinking?"
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Hamas warehouses were disguised as World Vision warehouses, and trucks bringing supplies from Israel into Gaza unload their goods at those Hamas warehouses instead of legitimate World Vision warehouses.
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A November, 2015 Pew Poll found that while a large percentage of Muslim youths in the West support suicide bombing.
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A Rabbi of the Rabbinical Center of Europe told the EU official she cannot constantly undermine the foundations of Judaism: brit milah and kosher shechitah, and talk about wanting to eradicate anti-Semitism.
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"If these were [rightwing organization] Lehava activists there is no doubt they would have been held in jail until the end of the proceedings."
The flight is from NY to Tel Aviv. The anonymous threat said the bomb was in the kitchen.
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It seems that Bavaria thought restitution meant restitution to the Nazis rather than to their victims.
German police moved fast to shut down a terrorist situation in a theater in Vernheim, about 40 miles south of Frankfurt.
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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.
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"We have a mission to convert Muslims to Christianity. We have a mission to convert the people of all the non-Christian religions [except] Judaism."
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Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.
Russian-Israeli World War 2 veterans celebrate 71 years since the Allies victory over Nazi Germany, with a parade in Jerusalem on May 8, 2016.
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Following is the address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve (4 May) of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
It’s the Holocaust rescue story that often goes untold—Jews who put their lives on the line to save their fellow Jews.
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"Every time I arrive in my uniform, my 82-year-old grandfather starts crying."
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Israeli Jews were more satisfied than Israeli Arabs — 60% vs. 48% respectively.
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"If I post something from Adele or Taylor Swift, you can bet it'll be gone in a few hours."
The new plans will benefit 60,000 survivors living below the poverty line.
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"An orthodox Islam that does not respect our constitution or even contradicts it is incompatible with our legal system and culture."
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The Israel Hayom Sunday article is an attempt to blame the Germans for the February faux pas.
Despite rumors being published by Der Spiegel, sources say relations are strong between Israel and Berlin.
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26.1% have a German citizenship; 54% live with a spouse who is a German national; and 54.4% have parents or grandparents who are Holocaust survivors.
Master Sgt. Robbie Edwards, as a POW, told a Nazi officer if he wants to exterminate Jewish soldiers, he has to murder him and fellow non-Jews.
The large Galeria Kaufhof chain denied a previous report that it took "settlement" goods off its shelves and insists, "We don’t get involved in politics."
Report: Israeli sources, and not those from France as originally thought, warned exactly how terrorists planned to blow up a soccer match. A bomb was found in an ambulance.
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Israeli farmers in the Jordan Valley have shifted their sales to Russia, the US and Canada, and don’t bother being treated as second class vendors in Europe.
She also said the Palestinians must condemn "everything constituting the support of terror."
The Prime Minister kept the connection of the Muslim leader with Hitler in the headlines just prior to visiting Germany.
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There were an estimated 20,000 German Jews who owned guns. In 1933, the Nazis used official records to disarm potential opponents—communists, socialists and Jews.
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Josef Schuster fears the fact that many of the refugees seeking asylum in Germany come from countries hostile to Israel might bolster anti-Semitic views among the Arab community.
Berlin has been a popular destination for Israelis for more than a decade.
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The Syrians and Afghans fought over the use of the showers at the makeshift accommodation. An eyewitness report on Facebook suggested the cause of the dispute was a locked toilet door.
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A German police union official explained, “Sunnis fight Shiites, there are Salafists of varying kinds… Women are being forced to wear veils. Men are forced to pray. Islamists want to impose their values.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A 91-year-old SS woman aided operations that led to the murder of 260,000 Jews.
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German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has proposed updating the Strafgesetzbuch German penal code and removing from it those unmistakable traces of Nazism.
Netanyahu: "We have historical memory of what happened when Europe labeled Jewish products."
The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."
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Europe’s biggest Jewish sports event will take place in Germany—for the first time in its history.
UPDATE: At least one man and woman were killed and one other person was injured in a shooting spree near Ansbach, Germany on Friday. Unconfirmed reports say that several people were killed. It is not yet known if it a terrorist attack. Police reportedly have captured the murderer, who fled in a silver Mercedes Cabrio
Instead of accepting reality, the President is trying to hold on to an illusion.
The Arab world clearly distrusts Obama even more than Israel doubts him, although they are a bit paranoid.
Germany is building 4 new warships for Israel, and IDF officers will be part of the process.
By JoeSettler
President Obama believes anti-Semites limit their anti-Semitism to discrimination and organizing, but will always put their survival first!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the victory day on Nazi Germany, 70 years ago, in Latrun on May 7, 2015.
Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'
Oskar Groening's admission of crimes and denial of guilt exposes the depths and truth of evil.
The teacher could face three years in jail for displaying Nazi symbols, which includes singing Nazi songs.
Authorities have ruled out terror but don’t know of the co-pilot's motives.
Iran's Pres. Rouhani is optimistic an agreement can be reached on a nuclear deal, says there's "nothing that cannot be resolved."
Security has been heightened for Jews.
By Rachel Levy
In Berlin 2015, a major Jewish monthly magazine is now delivered in plain wrapping paper -- to minimize the chance of attack.
The ICC is a political organization dependent on donor countries.
By JTA
The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
By JTA
The German envoy has a perverse version of “never forget.”
Anti-Semitism has returned to the mainstream of European society and Israel has become its focus.
“Jewish teams’ are more proud to win than proud to be Jewish.
Oskar Groening’s defense is that he only was cog in the Nazi death machine.
Germany vowed a year ago it is cracking down on Islamic extremists. It is losing.
The Israeli navy is about to receive its fourth submarine and the first of three nuclear-capable subs purchased from Germany.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
If Gaza missile fire does not cease, the PM says Israel is prepared to resume and intensify the operation.
Collection seized by German officials in 2012, but owner said he'd come to it all legally. Perhaps he considered stealing from Jews legal?
Germany's leader, Angela Merkel, is the most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes Magazine.
By Shalom Bear
The US denies President Obama had any role in the German decision to cancel the promised discount.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday his meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Cabinet was “exceptional” because it was on schedule. Considering Israeli’s penchant for “on time” a synonym for running on a clock that does not keep time, that might be the most valuable result of the visit. “We had a very enjoyable […]
By JTA
Which is more disgusting – an anti-Semitic caricature of Zuckerberg or his throwing away Judaism for atheism?
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The Jewish community of Thessaloniki is suing Germany for the return of a ransom paid during the Nazi occupation of Greece. The papers were filed Friday in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, the community’s president, David Saltiel, told JTA. The move to the European court comes after a struggle of two […]
German police arrested three men in their 80s and 90s Thursday on suspicion of accessory to murder when they were guards at the Auschwitz death camp. Three others, all in their 90s, may also be arrested if police uncover enough evidence to warrant putting them on trial. "This is a major step," said Nazi hunter […]
How did smugglers of arms to Iran escaped the law for 10 years. How could Israeli Jews even think of helping the enemy?
President Shimon Peres will confer the Presidential Medal of Distinction on German Chancellor Angela Merkel next Tuesday for “her unwavering commitment to Israel's security and the fight against anti-Semitism.” His office stated Thursday, The medal, the highest civilian award in Israel and comparable to the Legion of Honor of France and the Order of Canada, […]
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Croatian authorities are investigating a 90-year-old man suspected of committing war crimes as an SS soldier and guard at the Auschwitz death camp. Germany’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation of Crimes during the Period of National Socialism last month alerted Croatian authorities to the presence in Croatia of Jacob Dencinger, the Croatian news outlet Jutarnji […]
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A new Jewish community was dedicated in the former East Berlin, in the footsteps of one destroyed by the Nazis. In an odd twist, the community has the same name as another Berlin congregation that is mired in legal limbo and debt after failing to prove it has any members. In Tuesday’s ceremonies at the […]
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More than 1,000 people have applied for new compensation of a one-time payment of $2,700 from Germany for labor performed in Amsterdam’s Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust. The compensation is offered to people who lived in three districts of the Dutch capital that served as ghettos for the city’s Jewish community during the German occupation […]
Visiting Germany Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier accused Israel of “disrupting” talks with the Palestinian Authority for a peace agreement by announcing the construction of more homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria. He alleged that the building violates understandings that Kerry set forth last July, when direct talks resumed for the first time in three […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
At the age of 104, she decided the time had come to “live a little.”
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New Year’s revelers shot fireworks and urinated in Germany’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Reacting to a disgusting and shocking video that also explicitly showed a man urinating amid young party-goers celebrating among the 2711 stone slabs at the memorial last week, spokesperson Jenifer Stolz told JTA that “we are all quite appalled. But it is […]
Nazi lovers and sports fans now have chance to add a Nazi-era soccer poster, complete with a swastika, to their collections. A Nazi-era poster of soccer game between Ireland and Germany, represented by a picture of a swastika, is going on sale at an auction in Dublin.The poster is expected to bring in up to […]
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Two artworks hanging in Germany’s parliament building in Berlin may have been confiscated or acquired at artificially depressed prices by the Nazis from the original owners, German newspapers reported. The Die Welt newspaper suggested that one of the works coincidentally stems from a gallery owned by an uncle of Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazi-era dealer whose […]
Bavaria has decided to scrap its plans to reprint Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" with critical commentary when a legal ban by Germany on republishing it expires at the end of 2015. Germany owns the book’s copyright because Hitler, born in Austria, was registered as a resident of Munich. He wrote the autobiographical "Mein Kampf" (My […]
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A sapling that came from the tree that stood outside the hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was cut down and stolen in Frankfurt, German police said. Unidentified parties cut down the 8-foot tree outside the Anne Frank School sometime between last week and Monday, according to a report Tuesday by the Dutch public […]
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A German soccer team withdrew from a sponsorship agreement with Saudi Arabia’s national airline because it refuses to ticket Israeli citizens. The FSV Frankfurt team abrogated the contract with Saudia this week after criticism leveled by Jewish groups and other organizations, according to the Associated Press. The airline’s director told The New York Post in […]
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A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. “Er Ist Wieder Da,” German for “He’s Back,” sold 1.3 million copies in Germany after its 2012 release. In the book, Hitler awakens in modern-day Berlin and garners enough attention to become host of his […]
The French-based "IPC – Sa" Firm said it will change the name of its deterging product from “Cyclone B,” almost the same as that of the infamous Nazi gas "Zyklon B," after strong condemnation by European Jewish Association General Director, Rabbi Menachem Margolin The Nazis used "cyclone B" gas to exterminate Jews in death camps […]
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At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months after being identified as a result of an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded hundreds of calls and […]
By JTA
German authorities have bowed to international pressure and are publishing a partial list of artworks found in a Munich apartment. The spectacular art find – including works by Chagall, Picasso, Matisse and Beckmann – was publicized by the Munich-based Focus magazine earlier this month. Officials are assembling a “task force” of experts to speed up provenance research. […]
Berlin’s first Jewish student house opened its doors on Sunday for pro-Israel lectures and activities in response to anti-Israel tendencies commonly found on Berlin’s campuses and for cultural and leisure activities for Jewish students in the German capital. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, who is behind the effort and serves as a Jewish community rabbi in Berlin, […]
Germany reportedly has told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Israel faces “serious consequences” if it does not restore its former relationship with the U.N. Human Rights Council. Avigdor Lieberman, who was Foreign Minister last year, cut Israel’s ties with the panel after it announced it was going to investigate the Jewish presence in Judea and […]
The Holocaust has no historical connection with ancient Assyria, but there is a curiously possible link provided by a gold tablet obtained by a Holocaust survivor. A German museum wants it back.
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An interactive video game will allow users to relive a day in the life of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank. The focus of the game, simply titled “Anne Frank,” is the day in October 1942 that the teenage Anne wrote in her diary about her fears that a worker was about to discover the family’s hiding […]
During a press conference with President Shimon Peres on Thursday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte unequivocally stated that products made over the 1967 Green Line, will continue to be labeled "Made in Israel" in the Netherlands, according to a report in JPost.com. The Dutch position is unlike that of the Germans, who definitely plan to […]
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.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yad Vashem recently recognized Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann as Righteous Among the Nations, an honorary title bestowed by Yad Vashem on behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Dr. Helmy, an Egyptian physician living in Berlin and Szturmann, […]
The White House announced Monday that more than dozen more countries have formally backed a “strong international response" to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States now has the support of 24 countries, not including Israel which has tried to lay low. The list includes an interesting collection of allies, such as […]
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Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard, who claimed he knew nothing about the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews. Has died at the age of 96. SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was at Hitler’s side he and Eva Braun committed suicide before the Allies could capture them. Braun, who was his mistress until a quick marriage ceremony shortly […]
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Plans for a memorial in Munich to 11 Israelis and a German police officer murdered at the 1972 Summer Olympics there were unveiled on Wednesday, the eve of Rosh HaShanah, at the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. The planned hall of remembrance is slated to be built near the site that housed the […]
Judicial officials in Germany have investigated 49 former Nazi guards at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and said 30 of them should be prosecuted, while nine others have since died Another seven of the former guards are living outside of the country. Some of the guards are reportedly as old as 97. The justice agency in […]
Holocaust survivors have at least two ways to take revenge against the Nazis. One is to overcome the past and bring a new family into the world. The other is to donate a Torah. Marge Fettmen did both.
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Russia will contribute up to $1 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation for the conservation and maintenance of the site of the former Nazi concentration camp, the Polskie Radio website reported. A statement issued by the Russian Embassy in Warsaw stated that support for the project is “a common moral duty as it serves the mission […]
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An original list of names of 801 Jews rescued by German industrialist Oskar Schindler did not find a buyer on eBay, where the opening bid was set to be at least $3 million for the 14-page list typed on onion skin paper. California collectors Gary Zimet and Eric Gazin had said when the auction was […]