A 142-year-old cemetery has been closed 'for security reasons' but no one seems to know why.
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A 142-year-old cemetery has been closed 'for security reasons' but no one seems to know why.
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Stamp collecting has never been seen as cool, but the Israel Philatelic Service is keen to highlight its appeal to the digital generation.
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Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan has left no stone unturned in his efforts to build his gypsy Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
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Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, rejects apology, saying 'frankly, I do not think that you understand the problem.'
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Berlin allows resumption of ritual, although conditioned it on its being carried out by doctors.
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Meeting comes after a rabbi and several Jewish students were attacked in Berlin by a group of Arab youths.
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The recent publication of so-called spoken Yekkish – the languageused by immigrants from German-speaking countries – is a reason forcelebration.
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In op-ed to Süddeutsche Zeitung, Charlotte Knobloch says state of German Jews is as severe as it was in 1945, adding that German Jewry 'never overcame the Holocaust.'
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City's mayor to Haaretz: 'Jews can live without danger in our city.'
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Boys, girls of 'Middle Eastern' appearance surround ultra-Orthodox schoolgirls; head of Jewish community in German capital: Muslims need to note Muslim anti-Semitism.
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A rare look inside Israel's State Archives.
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Following two anti-Semitic attacks in Germany and Austria last week, a Berlin newspaper asked politicians and celebrities to pose wearing skullcaps.
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Rabbi says he was greeted with a 'Heil Hitler' salute ahead of a football match while local police dismissed his plea for help.
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A young Lithuanian archaeologist reveals a dark secret hidden for 70 years: the remnants of the personal belongings of the Jews killed in the city of Kovno.
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German Jewish community fears further attacks after youths attacked a Berlin rabbi in front of his young daughter.
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Documents released in recent months show how the German security forces ignored concrete warnings of a terror attack on the Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village.
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Man, 53, wounded in the attack, says the four men threatened to kill his six-year-old daughter; suspects flee scene; Berlin mayor denounces 'anti-Semitic attack.'
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Dozens of classified documents from the Israel State Archives published on the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics, allow a rare glimpse into the Israeli government's decision-making process.
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Then-Mossad chief Zvi Zamir was highly critical of the way the German security forces operated during the deadly attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. 'They did not make the most minimal effort.'
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In an attempt to ensure that the Black September group would forgo any further activity in Germany, the German government wooed its leaders and expressed support for their 'resistance,' according to Der Spiegel.
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In letter to Director of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, head of religious affairs in German chancellor's office says Germany sees a special obligation to nurture the Jewish culture, religion.
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Amid raging debate over circumcision in Germany, postal service issues commemorative stamp describing the circumcision of Jesus.
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The infants' parents had been on their way to Israel after World War II when the British seized their ships and sent them to Cyprus.
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Israel's President Shimon Peres is the third leader who has tried to apply pressure on Germany following a Cologne court ruling that prohibits the procedure for medical reasons.
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