Germany

Germany’s military to have Jewish chaplains for first time in a century

A Jewish leader called it “a sign of the growing relationship of trust between the Jewish community and the Bundeswehr,” the armed forces.

Ben, Hannah, Lea, Noah: Germany’s non-Jewish parents are loving Hebrew Bible names

But few non-Jewish parents actually know the meaning of such names – they just like how they sound.

Head of German Jewry tells government to cancel pension payments to former SS members

Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the payments of pensions to people who might have committed war crimes was “intolerable.”

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German president under fire for congratulating Iranian regime on 40th anniversary

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Sausage museum says it won’t build on site of former Nazi camp in Germany

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40 years ago, an American miniseries changed the way Germans thought about their history. Now ‘Holocaust’ is being shown there again.

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Trial of former Nazi SS guard suspended due to his ill health

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Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation

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Ukraine Jewish cemetery gets protective fence with German funds

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Kosher ban is OK with Jewish supporters of Germany’s far-right party

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