Jews in germany

'Insurance certificate for escape': Israelis reclaim German citizenship in record numbers

Eighty years after the Holocaust, a record number of Israelis are reclaiming German citizenship – not out of nostalgia, but as a passport to security and opportunity

Germany granted citizenship to 6,756 Israelis in 2025, making its embassy in Israel the country's largest passport office outside Europe.Premium
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz with Berlin's Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, at Berlin's synagogue.

Germany's Merz visits Berlin's Chabad brass with officials in solidarity with rising antisemitism

RON DEKEL, president of the Jewish Students' Union of Germany (JSUD).

Antisemitism ‘everywhere’ in German universities, student union president tells 'Post' - interview

An illustrative silhouette of a rifle over a background of the Hamas flag.

German police arrest Lebanese Hamas terror suspect linked with planning attacks on Jews, Israelis


Berlin Jews blast teachers for discriminatory labor strike

Leftist GEW union has yet to reject Nazi past

An employee of the chancellery sweeps the red carpet in front of the honour guard before a welcoming ceremony at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany November 2, 2016.

For the first time ever, Miss Germany could be a Jew

German-Jewish pageant queen Tamar Morali sees her success as an achievement for the Jewish people.

Tamar Morali

German, Austrian contributions to Israel celebrated at Galilee event

The Yekke Museum is devoted to the documentation of the people of the Fifth Aliya – those who fled Austria and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Stef Wertheimer next to a picture of himself as a child in an advertisement for margarine taken 81 years ago.

German Jews cut ties with local Turkish group due to antisemitism

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs to spy on dissidents, says Jens Meyer-Wellmann, deputy editor of the 'Hamburger Abendblatt' newspaper.

Supporters listen to the speech by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during a rally for the upcoming referendum in Istanbul, Turkey

Writer under fire for demonizing German Jews

The journalist suggested undue Jewish power in the media.

A man wearing a yarmulke looks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

The rise of Germany's far-right: Its impact on Europe and Israel

AfD deputy chair Beatrix von Storch tells 'The Jerusalem Report' that Israel could be a role model for Germany.

Member of the European Parliament Beatrix von Storch speaks at a press conference of the Germany's far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in Berlin

Where will Germany's Jews stand in the country's upcoming elections?

How will the Jewish community channel its feelings towards the ongoing refugee crisis in Germany and Europe into a political decision?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes an address during an anti-Semitism demo at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate September 14, 2014.

Widow of Holocaust survivor donates $22 million to German zoo

Though history, time and distance had separated them, Elizabeth and Arnulf never forgot Cologne or the beloved zoo.

UNESCO World Heritage Cologne Cathedral and the Hohenzollern railway bridge along the Rhine

Deputy Mayor of Frankfurt seeks to ban 'deeply antisemitic' BDS

The boycott movement targeting Israel is “deeply antisemitic and should have no place in Frankfurt,” the deputy mayor of Frankfurt said.

Protesters attend a rally against anti-Semitism in Frankfurt August 31, 2014.

The three Germanies

An introduction to "old Germany, new Germany and 'mutant' Germany."

Attendee at Neo-Nazi concert, Themar, Germany, July 2017