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Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized in latest antisemitic vandalism incident

The memorial for the 32,000 deported Jews has faced repeated vandalism since its creation, with it being splashed with white paint and covered in parcel tape in August.

MAY 13, 2026|ByMICHAEL STARR

A Stolperstein or a 'stumbling stone' with the words, "here lived Margot Bendheim, born 1921, deported 1944 - Theresienstadt, survived" engraved in memory of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, is embedded in front of the house where she once lived, after she died on May 9 at the age of 103.

People attend a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized, covered in green graffiti, police say

A stele at the Berlin memorial was discovered covered in green graffiti containing "inflammatory content," according to a Wednesday police statement.

MAY 10, 2026|ByMICHAEL STARR

THE FREE University Berlin (Freie Universitaet Berlin) stands at twilight on February 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

Violent assault on Jewish student in Berlin not antisemitic in motive, appeals court rules

The appeals chamber also commuted the prison sentence of the attacker to two years and six months.

APRIL 14, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Rabbi A. Goldberg of Rabbinical Centre of Europe, German President F.W. Steinmeier, Rabbi Y. Teichtal, Chief Rabbi of Berlin & head of Chabad Berlin, Rabbi K. Ber, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel

Jerusalem Post and Chabad highlight global Hanukkah menorah lightings

Project brings Hanukkah menorah lightings—and Jewish pride—to audiences everywhere

DECEMBER 18, 2025|ByALAN ROSENBAUM

Socialist sentimentality

Pierre Birnbaum offers a fawning – but partly justified – treatment of Léon Blum in his new biography

OCTOBER 1, 2015ByMATI WAGNER

The Leon Blum memorial in Kibbutz Kfar Blum

German politician: Israel’s security fence is worse than communist Berlin Wall

In comparison with Israel’s security borders, “the Berlin Wall is a toy” said the Bavarian politician in a nearly four minute video posted on YouTube.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL

A nun hurries by the security barrier toward the checkpoint from Jerusalem on her way to pray by the spot where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity

CrossFit 'guru' incites fury over headstand at Berlin Holocaust memorial

On Tuesday Driskell took to Instagram again, this time to apologize and confirm that he did not know that he had been on hallowed ground.

AUGUST 11, 2015ByGIDEON GOREN

Euro Maccabi games marred by anti-Semitism in Berlin

Assault, insults as athletes told to keep their Jewish identities undercover.

AUGUST 1, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Athletes of the Israeli team arrive for the opening cermony of the 14th European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany July 28, 2015

Berlin police apologize for making soccer fans remove Israeli flag

Almog Cohen, an Israeli who plays for Ingolstadt, reportedly tweeted in Hebrew after Sunday’s incident that a stadium marshal told the fans “no Jew-flags” were allowed.

APRIL 28, 2015ByJTA

Protesters attend a rally against anti-Semitism in Frankfurt

Albanian man arrested in connection with murder of Israeli in Berlin

According to investigators, the suspect met Yosef Damari, aged 22, in a Berlin hostel last week and and is believed to have murdered him the following day.

APRIL 11, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS