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Raed Saleh, left, a Berlin senator, and the Berlin Jewish Community’s president, Gideon Joffe, hold an architect’s rendering of a planned reconstruction of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue. (Photo by Toby Axelrod)
March 29, 2018, 9:47 am
A Palestinian-born legislator dreams of rebuilding a synagogue in Berlin
He wants to rebuild the synagogue, which was largely destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938, to make a statement against anti-Semitism and discrimination targeting Muslims.
By Toby Axelrod
Among those attending the recent Junction conference in Berlin were (from left) Ani G. from Austria/Bulgaria; Joey L. from the United Kingdom; Tea T. from Georgia; and Daniel M. from Italy. (Photos by Bokeh Graphik/JDC)
June 15, 2017, 2:19 pm
These young Jews are optimistic about their future in Europe
By Toby Axelrod
Mourners place flowers and candles at a makeshift memorial in Berlin near the site where suspect Anis Amri drove a heavy truck into a Christmas market in an apparent terrorist attack. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images
December 29, 2016, 2:07 pm
Berlin attack highlights divide over refugees in fractious German Jewish community
By Toby Axelrod
Jalil Dabit (left) and Arab Christian from Ramallah, and Oz Ben David, who grew up Jewish in Beersheba, opened the restaurant together.Photo by Toby Axelrod
September 3, 2016, 1:08 am
This Israeli and Palestinian duo owns Berlin’s hippest hummus joint
By Toby Axelrod
A woman weeps at a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)
May 6, 2015, 6:23 pm
At Bergen-Belsen memorial, warnings and worry on Holocaust remembrance
By Toby Axelrod
July 25, 2011, 3:03 pm
Norway killer espoused right-wing philosophy claiming to be Zionist
By Toby Axelrod and JTA
October 26, 2010, 2:27 pm
Not wild about Wilders? Populists’ anti-Islam message has European Jewish leaders worried
By Toby Axelrod and JTA
April 8, 2010, 3:55 pm
In Germany, confronting the Nazi perpetrators
By Toby Axelrod and JTA
November 23, 2009, 9:20 pm
As Demjanjuk trial nears, prosecutors confident they can convict
By Toby Axelrod and JTA
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