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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
A shot of the golem and a little girl with a flower, seen here as it appears on the poster for "The Golem Rescored," was famously copied in the 1931 “Frankenstein” film.
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Reanimating ‘The Golem,’ horror cinema’s century-old urtext, just in time for Halloween

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 28, 2021October 28, 2021
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, seen delivering remarks in 2017, asked why descendants of German Jews should be forced to seek remedies in Germany in the first place. (Photo/JTA-Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Trump administration wants Holocaust restitution cases heard outside US. The Supreme Court seems skeptical.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Esther Cohen is flanked by her husband Samuel (left) and German President Joachim Gauck in Ioannina, Greece, March 7, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Wolfgang Kumm-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

6 of Europe’s most prominent Holocaust survivors have died over the past month

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA December 3, 2020December 3, 2020
an old man outside with an Israeli flag kippah on his head
Posted inWorld

The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 22, 2020October 22, 2020
A Star of David can be seen behind a surveillance camera on the wall of the Halle synagogue that was attacked one year ago today. (Photo/JTA-Hendrik Schmidt-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

A year after the Halle attack, we German Jews are still plagued by antisemitism

Dalia Grinfeld by Dalia Grinfeld and JTA October 9, 2020October 21, 2020
Mirjam Wenzel is the director of the new Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Aug. 25, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
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Frankfurt Jewish museum’s $58 million extension reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
looking up at an ornate synagogue facade
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In Western Europe, a Jewish ‘Community’ is like an expensive members-only club

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 29, 2020July 29, 2020
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.

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA July 7, 2020July 8, 2020
A Judensau sculpture on display on the outer wall of the town church of St. Marien in Wittenberg, Germany, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Hendrik Schmidt-Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
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In Germany, several churches have anti-Semitic sculptures from the Middle Ages. Can one man get them taken down?

by Toby Axelrod and JTA June 24, 2020June 24, 2020

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