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Joe Baur

Joe Baur is an American writer and author based in Berlin.

Nigerian students Funke Oluwatosin, left, and Deborah Ologbenla, right, pose for photos in Hillel sweatshirts. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz)
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From Nigeria to Kyiv to a Hillel in Berlin: The long, strange journey of 2 students fleeing the Ukraine war

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA May 2, 2022

Nigerian students Funke Oluwatosin and Deborah Ologbenla, both 16, received a crash course in German Jewish life — as the result of a very unexpected journey. The friends were studying […]

Monika Salzer speaks at a rally with fellow members of the Omas Gegen Rechts group, or Grandmas Against the Right, which she co-founded in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Omas Gegen Rechts)
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In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far right

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA January 5, 2022
Volunteers with a program now called Meet a Jew talk with non-Jewish students at a school in Frankfurt, Nov. 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Frank Rumpenhorst-picture alliance via Getty Images)
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After World War II, there were 100 Jews left in Frankfurt, Germany. Today the community has a potent voice.

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