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


Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions

It is virtually assured that yet more slings and arrows will fly before all is said and done - the UPJ could even break apart.

POTSDAM UNIVERSITY – ‘the new nucleus of Jewish Studies in Germany.’

Germany approves first-ever government plan to combat antisemitism

The National Strategy against Antisemitism and for Jewish Life highlights best practices and recommends new actions to be taken on political and societal levels.

Police perform a raid on suspected members of the Reichsbürger far-right group in Saaldorf, Germany, Dec. 7, 2022.

German synagogue reports shattered window during Yom Kippur services

It was unclear late Wednesday exactly what had happened at the Orthodox synagogue in the northern German city, officials there said.

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Lufthansa becomes first airline to adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism

The announcement comes after the airline barred a large group of Orthodox Jewish passengers from boarding a flight back in May.

Air planes of German carrier Lufthansa are parked at the airport in Frankfurt

Are too many Germans converting to Judaism? - analysis

In a DW column titled “Why the increasing number of converts is a problem for Judaism,” Avitall Gerstetter charged that too many people in Germany convert for the wrong reasons.

The German flag is pictured at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 2017

How a Holocaust survivor helped make Bayern Munich a soccer powerhouse

Last month, Bayern Munich celebrated former team president Kurt Landauer’s crowning achievement — the club’s first national championship win in 1932.

 A plaque honors Kurt Landauer at the Allianz Arena, the stadium of FC Bayern Munich.

Antisemitic crimes in Germany increased by 29% in 2021 - gov't report

3,027 antisemitic incidents were registered last year, up from 2,351 in 2020, according to the German government's annual report.

 A participant in a demonstration against Coronavirus restrictions stands with a yellow star with the inscription "not vaccinated" in Berlin, March 13, 2021.

Interim head of scandal-ridden German seminary vows changes, won't replace top rabbi

Rabbi Walter Homolka has been on leave since early May, when allegations of sexual harassment and abuse of power against him broke into public view.

 Attorney Gabriele Thöne, interim director of the Abraham Geiger College and former state secretary, and attorney Micha Guttmann, photographed during a press conference about allegations of sexual harassment against the director of the college, in Potsdam, Germany, June 1, 2022.

Why are Ukrainian Jews fleeing to Germany? - opinion

Many Jewish Ukrainian refugees – no one know how many, but it is certainly thousands - are choosing to come to Germany. Why?

 JDC evacuating Ukrainian Jews to Moldova.

Lost Torah scroll reappears in German town 83 years after disappearance

The Torah had not been seen since Kristallnacht, the pogrom against synagogues and Jewish property in German-speaking lands on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938.

 Uwe Mader with the Torah scroll fragments he handed over to the city of Görlitz, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.