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 Demonstrators hold banners as they take part in a May Day protest in Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2024. The banners read: "Freedom for Palestine" and "Long live the revolutionary first of May. Expropriate corporations, disarm warmongers, smash capitalism".

Berlin court pauses deportation of pro-Palestine activist pending conviction

 ROBERT SESSELMANN of the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a vote last Sunday to become a district leader, a breakthrough for the party which has hit record highs in national polls.

German parties form gov't that excludes AfD, far-right party that worries many Jews

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Defendant Irmgard F, a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, is brought to a courtroom in Itzehoe, northern Germany, where her verdict was spoken on December 20, 2022. - The court handed a two-year suspended sentence to the 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary.

Irmgard Furchner, convicted in 2022 of complicity in Nazi crimes, dies at 99

By JTA STAFF
 A Human Rights Watch flag is pictured on the Mont-Blanc bridge in Geneva, Switzerland, November 7, 2024.

HRW decries German proposal to revoke citizenship of antisemites, terror supporters

 German conservative candidate for chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz attends a press conference following the German general election in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2025.

Fearing further market meltdown, Germany's Merz calls for swift action on tariffs

By REUTERS
 The mayors of Tel Aviv and Berlin, Ron Huldai and Kai Wegner

'Perfect match': Tel Aviv and Berlin are now twin cities

 Mercury gemstone and ritual knife found in Roman-era German Settlement.

Mercury gemstone and ritual knife found in Roman-era German Settlement

 DEMONSTRATORS STAND near the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as they attend a demonstration against left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist antisemitism and in favor of showing solidarity with Israel, in Berlin, last year.

Germany is failing to keep its most meaningful promise to protect Jews

By NILS SCHWAGENSCHEIDT
 Russian oligarch and politician Roman Abramovich arrives at the Western Wall for his son’s Bar Mitzvah, in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 20, 2022.

Court rules media lacked evidence in tax evasion report on Roman Abramovich

 Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Andrey Chibis, the governor of the Murmansk region, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, August 6, 2024.

German intel: Russia planning large-scale war, testing NATO resolve

 Pro-Palestinian protests in Berlin.

Citing post-Holocaust doctrine, Germany seeks to deport pro-Palestinian protesters

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
 Demonstrators hold banners as they take part in a May Day protest in Berlin, Germany, May 1, 2024. The banners read: "Freedom for Palestine" and "Long live the revolutionary first of May. Expropriate corporations, disarm warmongers, smash capitalism".

Pro-Palestine protester assaults activist against antisemitism in Berlin

IDF operating in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2025.

Hind Rajab Foundation files new complaint in Germany against IDF soldier

Members of Or Tamid, an advocacy group in Frankfurt for survivors of sexual abuse, from left to right, Haleli Shomer Shalom, Roglit Ishay, Daniela Shemer and Niels Gerhardt.

Frankfurt’s Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA
 OSWIECIM, POLAND - APRIL 16, 2015: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Confronting the complex realities of Polish-Jewish identity

 Max Frankel on the cover of the book "The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times"

Max Frankel, Holocaust survivor and Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 94

 MEMBERS OF the Palestine Action Group gather in Sydney, in May.

Two insurers warn anti-Israel vandal group of legal action

 German tourist climbs forbidden Kukulkán pyramid at Chichén Itzá, faces crowd's wrath.

German tourist climbs forbidden Kukulkán pyramid at Chichén Itzá, faces crowd's wrath