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Toby Axelrod

Toby Axelrod is JTA’s correspondent for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. A former assistant director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin office, she has also worked as staff writer and editor at the New York Jewish Week and published books on Holocaust history for teenagers.

A middle aged man in glasses stands outside chatting
Posted inWorld

Germany’s far-right AfD party scores first district victory, alarming Jewish leaders

by Toby Axelrod June 28, 2023
Panelists speak at the Summit of European Jewish Leaders in Berlin. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy JDC)
Posted inNews

Israeli political turmoil spills over into Berlin at summit of European Jewish leaders

by David I. Klein, Toby Axelrod and JTA March 29, 2023
Members of the European Union of Jewish Students stand outside the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, as they announce a lawsuit against Twitter over antisemitism on the platform. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy EUJS)
Posted inWorld

European Jewish student group sues Twitter over its handling of antisemitism and Holocaust denial

by Toby Axelrod and JTA January 25, 2023
Karin Sczech participates in the excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy TLDA Ronny Krause)
Posted inWorld

A German town built a granary atop its Jewish cemetery. Now the bones are yielding insights about Ashkenazi DNA.

by Toby Axelrod and JTA November 30, 2022
Avitall Gerstetter, shown in 2019, wrote a column critical of conversion in Germany. (Photo/JTA-Stephan Röhl-Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inWorld

Are too many Germans converting to Judaism? The debate is roiling Germany’s Jewish community.

by Toby Axelrod and JTA September 7, 2022September 7, 2022
Members of the Oberammergau Passion Play, which has been telling the New Testament story of Jesus’ death and resurrection since 1634, sing backstage in Oberammergau, Germany, July 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Angelika Warmuth-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

The director of Germany’s infamous Passion Play takes its antisemitic stereotypes by the horns

by Toby Axelrod and JTA August 18, 2022August 19, 2022
a picture of a computer screen shows a bar that says "Hate Speech" and a mouse hovering a button that says "Toxizität Berechnen"
Posted inWorld

German government reports startling 29% increase in antisemitic crimes

by Toby Axelrod and JTA June 10, 2022
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Photo/JTA-Julian Stratenschulte-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Institutions unravel amid mounting sexual harassment scandal in German liberal Judaism

by Toby Axelrod and JTA May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
A man carries a child after refugees from the Ukraine arrive at the main train station in Berlin, March 1, 2022. in Berlin, Germany. (Photo/JTA-Hannibal Hanschke-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Germany loosens asylum requirements for Ukrainian Jews amid ongoing war with Russia

by Toby Axelrod and JTA March 10, 2022
Mischa Ushakov, the founder of Never Again Right Now, at the headquarters of Allianz in Berlin, Jan. 21, 2022, protesting the insurance giant's sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics. (Photo/JTA-Tibet Initiative Germany)
Posted inSports

‘Never again,’ for the Uyghurs: Jews around the world ramp up China protests as Beijing Olympics start

by Toby Axelrod and JTA February 4, 2022

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