BERLIN—A new documentary is shining light on Germany’s neo-Nazi music scene and the role it plays in cultivating a violent far-right subculture. The film “Blut muss Fliessen” (Blood Must Flow) looks at the neo-Nazi music scene in Germany, as well...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y.—Meet Bradley Chalupski, Israel’s best hope for a medal on the bobsled track at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014. Chalupski is an unlikely Israeli athlete. For one thing he competes in skeleton, a sport that’s virtually...
By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 29, 2012
You don’t need to consult your calendar to know that Purim is near. Walk into your neighborhood supermarket and you will be greeted by a display of packaged hamentashen. The iconic cookies originated in Germany as mohn-taschen (translation: poppy seed...
BERLIN -- Germany's top Jewish leader met the resignation of German President Christian Wulff with "respect, appreciation and regret." Wulff, 52, who recently was awarded the Jewish community's top prize, announced his resignation Friday amid a growing...
By Jason Miller, JTA
• Published February 10, 2012
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. -- More than 65 years ago Kurt Kaufmann was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. This weekend his U.S.-born grandson, Evan Kaufmann, is taking the ice for the German national hockey team. After finishing a successful...
TORONTO -- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto. Plaut, a former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress who wrote widely on human rights, died Wednesday at the age of 99. He often was quoted by media around the world...
It has been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And that seems to be true of the "Way to Heaven" by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, which will run through Sunday at the New Jewish Theatre. Jewish Light critic Robert Cohn has already...
"La Habanera" is the next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series, and will be screened at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Holocaust Museum's theatre in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive.Director...
BERLIN -- The International Court of Justice in The Hague has overturned an Italian ruling that would have forced Germany to pay a pension to an Italian former slave laborer for the Nazis. The court affirmed international law, which allows citizens...
JERUSALEM -- Chefs from the White House, the Kremlin, the Elysee Palace and the Chancellery of Germany are touring Israel and will cook a gala dinner for peace. The delegation from the the group Club des Chefs des Chefs, or Chefs of the Heads of State,...
JERUSALEM -- The German government will donate $13 million to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel over the next 10 years. The agreement was signed Wednesday by visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who met with Holocaust survivors...
A U.S.-based group of Holocaust survivors is commending Germany on its determination to fight "deep-rooted" anti-Semitism at home. The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants in a statement issued Monday said they were deeply shaken...
