Tag: Germany
With Merkel’s decision to step down in 2021 comes the deconstruction of her tenure
For German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s opponents, defectors and even supporters, the announcement that she will not seek the chancellery in 2021 is not yet cause for either celebration or concern. Her exit as Chancellor...
After 13 years as chancellor, Merkel to step down in 2021
With her popularity waning, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will step down from her position and as leader of the right-wing CDU party in 2021, having served 18 years as party leader and almost 13...
![Uffizi Gallery [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/800px-Germans_transporting_art_to_St._Leonardo-324x235.jpg "The return of looted cultural objects to Israel")
The return of looted cultural objects to Israel
The German Culture Minister has agreed to bring to Israel the Gurlitt collection of some 1,500 art works looted by the Nazis and discovered in 2012. These art works are to be displayed for...
Anti-Israel boycotters disrupt Holocaust film in Berlin
Two supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign disrupted the showing of a Holocaust movie in Berlin, holding up a banner bearing their message in front of the screen, Benjamin Weinthal reported on...
German police accuse Syrian refugee of plotting chemical attack in Israel
German police have arrested a Syrian refugee on suspicion of plotting a chemical attack in Israel, local media reported on Friday.
The suspect, 21, was allegedly actively recruiting members for a cell that was to...
German court dismisses lawsuit against Kuwait Airways for banning Israeli
A German court dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Kuwait Airways for banning Israeli passengers, despite labeling the policy “unacceptable and irrelevant.”
This move comes amid the airline refusing to service an Israeli student who...
Berlin falafel wars: A microcosm of changing sentiment towards Jews living in Germany?
A small protest in Germany’s capital city on Aug. 11 revealed a cross-section of national attitudes towards Jews and Israel, and perhaps a symbolic stance on a much larger problem throughout Western Europe.
Three protesters...
Jewish ruins of the Rhine
In recent months, the Rhine city of Mainz captured worldwide headlines for the murder and rape of one of its Jewish members, 14-year-old Susanna Feldmann, allegedly at the hands of an Iraqi asylum-seeker, now in...
Confronting Germany’s mixed record on tackling BDS
Malca Goldstein-Wolf, a German Jew, made headlines last year when she convinced the German broadcasting network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) to pull its sponsorship of Roger Waters’ German tour. She wrote a heartfelt letter to WDR’s...
Two young couples set to revive Jewish life and Israeli culture in Berlin
Religious Zionists are usually the last types of Israelis to visit Berlin, let alone live there. As staunch nationalists loyal to the Jewish homeland, they’re often less forgiving of Germany’s dark past than their...