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Aug 26, 2026, 8:10 PM

Beware the ‘Populist Bump’

Last week, Der Spiegel faced a media firestorm for its cover page placement of lead Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) Saxony-Anhalt candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Despite the accompanying article’s critical tone, commentators from renowned center-left media outlets lambasted the publication, arguing...

Aug 24, 2026, 4:26 PM

In my city, the only Zionists are Iranians

Germany's parliament is moving to jail people for denying Israel's right to exist. It cannot enforce the laws it already has, and the people paying for that are Iranians. A man walked past an Iranian opposition rally in central Stuttgart,...

Aug 19, 2026, 2:56 AM

Reflections On A Week In Berlin

You walk down the street – past people of all ages advertising colorful tattoos and piercings, others in natty suits while holding briefcases. A dizzying array of Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, vegan, German and other dining options confuse the yearning...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 18, 2026, 12:35 AM

The Nordic Rift: How Scandinavia Estranged Israel

The Postwar Consensus and Shared Idealism In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the nations of the Nordic world viewed the nascent State of Israel not with suspicion, but with a profound and genuine affinity. This was a...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 13, 2026, 4:58 AM

Fleeing the Terror: The Story of Ariella Pardo Segre

São Paulo – In 1943, as Nazi persecution intensified in Italy, the Pardo family risked everything to survive. Guided by a smuggler and sheer courage, they crossed the Alps on foot toward Switzerland. Among them was Ariella Pardo Segre,...

Aug 9, 2026, 6:37 AM

Teaching Encounter Like Martin Buber

Martin Buber, 1950, Public Domain, The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives (via Harvard University Library)

One hundred years ago, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber published “Education” in the inaugural issue of Die Kreatur. He edited the quarterly with Protestant physician Viktor von Weizsäcker and Catholic theologian Joseph Wittig. Weimar Germany was no nursery of interfaith amity....

Hannah Zieziula

Aug 6, 2026, 1:14 PM

The family I found in a hostel in Australia

I arrived in Margaret River, Western Australia, completely alone with my backpack and my surfboard. After months of traveling surrounded by friends, I now had to start over to find farm work and earn my second-year visa. Again I...

Aug 4, 2026, 8:49 PM

Jews in European Art: An Albanian Portrait

The representation, caricature, and portrayal of Jews in European art is a phenomenon traceable at least to the Middle Ages. Art was frequently utilized for ideological, propagandistic, and political objectives by the Catholic and Protestant Churches, as well as...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jul 29, 2026, 12:15 AM

The Holocaust and the Erasure of Europe’s Regional Jewish Foodways

Before the Second World War, Europe possessed no singular Jewish cuisine. It possessed a dense culinary geography whose boundaries often corresponded as closely to rivers, ports, mountain ranges, agricultural regions, and commercial routes as they did to political frontiers....

Jul 26, 2026, 6:45 PM

France-Germany after Adenauer, end of an era?

Israel, Memory, Europe: Is the AfD Bringing Germany’s Postwar Consensus to an End? The rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is usually analyzed through an electoral lens: rising poll numbers, the weakening of governing parties, the future of Germany’s...

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