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The graves in the Adass Yisroel cemetery.
Memberless synagogue buries secrets in Jewish Berlin graveyard

A 142-year-old cemetery has been closed 'for security reasons' but no one seems to know why.

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Zohar Noy, stamp collector
Post Mortem: Israeli stamp collectors wonder why the local scene isn't vibrant

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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The Roma Holocaust memorial that wasn't built in a day

Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan has left no stone unturned in his efforts to build his gypsy Holocaust memorial in Berlin.

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 Estonian paper
Estonian weekly regrets mock ad depicting Jews in Nazi camp

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 circumcision protest
Hundreds protest in Berlin: ‘No Judaism without circumcision’

Berlin allows resumption of ritual, although conditioned it on its being carried out by doctors.

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Rabbis and imams meet in Paris
Rabbis and imams meet in Paris to ease interreligious tensions

Meeting comes after a rabbi and several Jewish students were attacked in Berlin by a group of Arab youths.

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Take a biss of this book!

The recent publication of so-called spoken Yekkish – the languageused by immigrants from German-speaking countries – is a reason forcelebration.

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Circumcision
Jewish leader in wake of Berlin anti-Semitic attacks: Perhaps Jews are unwanted in Germany

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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  • Berlin youths hurl anti-Semitic slurs at Jewish girls, in second incident in last week
Dr. Daniel Shinhar preparing for a circumcision
Berlin says ritual circumcision legal, if performed by doctor

City's mayor to Haaretz: 'Jews can live without danger in our city.'

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Berlin youths hurl anti-Semitic slurs at Jewish girls, in second incident in last week

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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The gun that killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the State Archives in Jerusalem.
Communing with 300 million pages of documents

A rare look inside Israel's State Archives.

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BZ newspaper
Berliners don skullcaps to show solidarity with Jewish community

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 Shlomo Hofmeister who was verbally attacked ahead of a football match in Vienna.
Football fan verbally assaults Vienna rabbi while police look on

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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Personal items uncovered in Kovno’s VII Fort in Lithuania.
Trove of everyday items reveals Lithuania's dark Holocaust secret

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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A kippa.
Berlin rabbi seminary instructs students to remove skullcaps in public

German Jewish community fears further attacks after youths attacked a Berlin rabbi in front of his young daughter.

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The funeral of one of the Munich victims
Germany, Israel still conceal facts about massacre

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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Youths attack Berlin rabbi, in suspected anti-Semitic assault

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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The Israeli Olympic team parades in the Olympic Stadium, Munich, Aug. 26, 1972
Israel State Archives reveal: The secret protocols of Munich Olympics massacre

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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From the 1972 protocols of Munich massacre: 'Germany does not value human life'

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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West German border police helicopters that carried armed terrorists and nine Israeli Olympian
Germany cooperated with Palestinian terrorists after Munich massacre, report says

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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Merkel vows to allow religious circumcision in Germany, aide says

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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The German stamp.
German postage stamp honors circumcision as ancient tradition

Amid raging debate over circumcision in Germany, postal service issues commemorative stamp describing the circumcision of Jesus.

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Cyprus-born Zehavit Blumenfeld and Yitzhak Teutsch at Tel Aviv’s memorial to the illegal immigrants.
Archivist tracks down the 'lost babies' of Cyprus' Jewish refugee camps

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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President Shimon Peres.
Peres urges German president: Let Jews practice circumcision

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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