The president of Germany called on his country to support its Jewish community and the principle of multiculturalism in the face of rising right-wing extremism. Germany should display openness “to the chance for symbiosis,” Roman Herzog said while accepting the Leo Baeck Prize, the German Jewish community’s highest honor.
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