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Janet Bond Brill

Sep 9, 2026, 9:41 PM

An AfD Leader Called It a Monument of Shame. Edna Was Born at Miła 18.

My mother-in-law was born at Miła 18. In October 1934, the address meant nothing beyond the life unfolding inside it. It was an apartment building in Warsaw, on a street that had not yet been walled into a ghetto. Her...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Sep 9, 2026, 9:32 PM

Germany and the Geography of Memory

The Germany I Encountered The recent elections in Saxony are the occasion for this essay, but they are not its subject. Electoral results belong to the immediate political moment. The deeper question is what happens to historical memory when borders,...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 9, 2026, 8:50 PM

A Seismic Shift In German Politics

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party has entered a stunning new phase in its trajectory toward state and federal power after finishing first in the Saxony-Anhalt election on September 6. Although it did not win an absolute majority, the AfD...

Sep 9, 2026, 8:28 PM

Rosh HaShanah in the Shadow of Spengler

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On Rosh HaShanah, Jewish tradition turns its gaze outward. It is Yom Harat Olam - the Day of Judgment not just for the Jewish people, but for all humanity (kol ba’ei olam). Liturgy reminds us that on this day,...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 8, 2026, 6:03 PM

Does This Road Lead to Another Führer?

VENI, VIDI… DID I UNDERSTAND? Does This Road Lead to Another Führer? There are numbers that force us to ask uncomfortable questions. In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD has just won 43.8 percent of the vote. We are no longer talking about a...

Menachem Elyah Paull

Sep 6, 2026, 12:28 AM

Israel needs to talk to the Diaspora Jews

In 1972, when I was sixteen, I knew an Israeli named Itzik. More than half a century later, I still remember him. He was a shaliach, working with Jewish youth organizations and visiting schools. He had recently served in the IDF....

Jonathan Feldstein

Sep 2, 2026, 8:13 PM

Why Remember Munich

Several years ago, I was flying through the Munich airport making a connection on the way home to Israel. For some reason I was selected for additional and what felt like particularly obnoxious screening inside the airport. Admittedly, until...

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...

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