https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany's Jewish community on Wednesday urged the country to ramp up protection after Israeli flags were burnt in front of synagogues amid escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence. https://www.thelocal.de/20210512/germanys-jews-call-for-protection-amid-israel-palestinian-clashes Wed, 12 May 2021 13:59:49 +0200 germanys-jews-call-for-protection-amid-israel-palestinian-clashes German Chancellor Angela Merkel extended her "heartfelt sympathy" to Israel for the massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site that killed at least 44 people on Friday, her spokesman said. https://www.thelocal.de/20210430/merkel-sends-heartfelt-sympathy-to-israel-for-deadly-stampede Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:48:31 +0200 merkel-sends-heartfelt-sympathy-to-israel-for-deadly-stampede To celebrate Hanukkah, The Local into a few things you perhaps didn't know about Hanukkah in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20151208/five-surprising-facts-about-hanukkah-in-germany Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:20:56 +0100 five-surprising-facts-about-hanukkah-in-germany The Abraham Geiger College has become a centre of European Judaism, with Rabbis and cantors being trained in Potsdam and Berlin for 20 years. https://www.thelocal.de/20190905/abraham-geiger-college-20-years-jewish-tradition-and-modernity Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:47:27 +0200 abraham-geiger-college-20-years-jewish-tradition-and-modernity Police are investigating after a prominent Berlin rabbi was insulted and spat on in a suspected anti-Semitic attack. https://www.thelocal.de/20190731/we-will-not-hide-berlin-rabbi-speaks-out-after-suspected-anti-semitic-incident Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:16:47 +0200 we-will-not-hide-berlin-rabbi-speaks-out-after-suspected-anti-semitic-incident US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday voiced concern over a warning to Jews by a German official about the dangers of wearing the kippa skullcap in Germany in the face of rising anti-Semitic attacks. https://www.thelocal.de/20190531/pompeo-voices-concern-over-german-kippa-warning-to-jews Fri, 31 May 2019 15:14:37 +0200 pompeo-voices-concern-over-german-kippa-warning-to-jews German daily Bild published a cut-out-and-use kippa on Monday in a bid to fight rising anti-Semitism, after Jews were warned about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional skullcap in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20190527/german-newspaper-bild-prints-cut-out-kippa-to-fight-anti-semitism Mon, 27 May 2019 14:10:43 +0200 german-newspaper-bild-prints-cut-out-kippa-to-fight-anti-semitism The remains of six Holocaust victims who were murdered at the Auschwitz death camp were laid to rest in Britain on Sunday https://www.thelocal.de/20190121/holocaust-victims-killed-at-auschwitz-laid-to-rest-in-britain Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:12:38 +0100 holocaust-victims-killed-at-auschwitz-laid-to-rest-in-britain British nationals of Jewish descent, whose relatives fled Nazi-occupied Europe, are taking the difficult decision to restore the citizenship stripped from them by the Third Reich as Brexit looms. We spoke to those affected. https://www.thelocal.de/20190115/british-jews-take-german-path-to-europe-after-brexit Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:57:05 +0100 british-jews-take-german-path-to-europe-after-brexit Paul Alexander was just a toddler when his mother handed him to a volunteer nurse on a train leaving Nazi Germany in 1939. https://www.thelocal.de/20180617/child-refugee-who-fled-nazis-to-friedrichstrasse-in-berlin Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:17:37 +0200 child-refugee-who-fled-nazis-to-friedrichstrasse-in-berlin The first German Jewish contestant has made it to the top round of the national beauty pageant. https://www.thelocal.de/20171130/first-jewish-miss-germany-candidate Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:06:16 +0100 first-jewish-miss-germany-candidate The leader of the far-right AfD has defended her party after several anti-Semitic scandals among its members, saying that in fact they are one of the few forces that will guarantee Jewish life in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20170406/far-right-party-claims-to-be-one-of-few-guarantors-of-jewish-life Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:51:40 +0200 far-right-party-claims-to-be-one-of-few-guarantors-of-jewish-life Two suspected right-wing terrorists were detained amid nationwide raids on Wednesday against a group believed to be plotting attacks against police, Jews and asylum seekers. https://www.thelocal.de/20170125/police-raid-right-wing-extremists-suspected-of-plotting-attacks-on-jews-others Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:32:23 +0100 police-raid-right-wing-extremists-suspected-of-plotting-attacks-on-jews-others German police launched an investigation Thursday after the addresses of Jewish institutions were published on Facebook by neo-Nazis on the anniversary of the 1938 pogroms against Jews. https://www.thelocal.de/20161110/neo-nazis-post-list-of-jewish-sites-on-anniversary-of-kristallnacht Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:23:30 +0100 neo-nazis-post-list-of-jewish-sites-on-anniversary-of-kristallnacht A 95-year-old woman who survived the Nazis' most deadly concentration camp became the first woman this weekend to receive Frankfurt's top accolade of honorary citizenship. https://www.thelocal.de/20161017/holocaust-survivor-first-woman-to-win-prestigious-frankfurt-award Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:32:23 +0200 holocaust-survivor-first-woman-to-win-prestigious-frankfurt-award He lived through both world wars and even made it out alive from the Nazis' deadliest concentration camp. Now the world's oldest man is set to finally have his coming of age bar mitzvah. https://www.thelocal.de/20160914/worlds-oldest-man-auschwitz-survivor-has-bar-mitzvah-at-113 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:41:27 +0200 worlds-oldest-man-auschwitz-survivor-has-bar-mitzvah-at-113 The Auschwitz museum said on Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland's former communist regime. https://www.thelocal.de/20160608/auschwitz-museum-recovers-1000s-of-jewish-belongings-lost-for-decades-nazis-hitler-holocaust Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:36:47 +0200 auschwitz-museum-recovers-1000s-of-jewish-belongings-lost-for-decades-nazis-hitler-holocaust The World Jewish Congress on Monday accused the German unit of YouTube of failing to stop neo-Nazis from using the online video channel to distribute thousands of anti-Semitic tracks. https://www.thelocal.de/20160502/world-jewish-congress-slams-youtube-over-neo-nazi-videos Mon, 02 May 2016 19:56:03 +0200 world-jewish-congress-slams-youtube-over-neo-nazi-videos A leading member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has accused Israel of exploiting German friendship, as Spiegel claimed Berlin is becoming ‘sceptical’ about its relationship with the Jewish state. https://www.thelocal.de/20160502/israel-exploiting-german-friendship-govt-insider Mon, 02 May 2016 10:46:05 +0200 israel-exploiting-german-friendship-govt-insider A branch of the hard right AfD party compared their own experiences of hostility to the treatment of Jewish people during the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.de/20160316/afd-compares-selves-to-jews-during-wwii Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:56:33 +0100 afd-compares-selves-to-jews-during-wwii