RELIGION:  First Rabbis Ordained in Germany Since the Holocaust
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Berlin, Sep 15 (IPS) - The ordination of three rabbis in Germany -- the  first such event since the holocaust -- has been lauded by  politicians and Jewish organisations as a step forward in  Germany's long battle to come to terms with its traumatic  history.
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BERLIN, Aug 5  (IPS) - After a period of what many felt was collective  suspicion, Germany's Muslims are  searching new ways of  recovering identity.
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German leaders hailed the ordination as a milestone in the rebirth of Jewish life here.
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A document that surfaced recently in church archives has revived debate about a contentious post-World War II issue: the Vatican's attempt to keep hold of some Jewish children who were protected from the Nazis by Christian families.
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The director of Israel's Holocaust memorial has said he was "appalled and surprised" by comments three Roman Catholic bishops from Germany made that compared conditions in the West Bank to the Holocaust.
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The nationâs largest Jewish movement is preparing to adopt a new prayer book intended to offer something for everyone, including people who do not believe in God.
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Papers in Germany reflect on the lessons of the Holocaust
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Germany's biggest synagogue is reopening in Berlin after restoration funded by the city and lottery money.
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Germany&#39;s biggest synagogue reopened Friday after a major restoration, in a defiant symbol of the rebirth of Jewish life in the city where the Nazis planned the Holocaust.
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A Kabbalah Centre leader who is also Madonna's spiritual adviser says Jews brought the Holocaust upon themselves.
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The BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports on the world's first flight for naturists in Germany, a country with a nudist tradition stretching back more than 100 years.
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In 1942, 8-year-old Moshe Bar-Yuda walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Slovakia and watched him being shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate.
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Germany's largest synagogue, featuring golden mosaic tiles and a star-spangled blue dome, reopened Friday after more than a year of renovations to restore its beauty following decades of neglect.
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Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage to Austria on Friday with a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims, and an appeal to diplomats serving with the U.N. nuclear agency and other international organizations.Ahead of his visit, Benedict's seventh foreign trip in two years as pope, the German-born pontiff spoke of his affection for Austria, a mostly Catholic country 'which has been near to me since my childhood.'But the pope, who visited and vacationed here often as a cardinal, faced a challenge: Many Austrian believers, disgusted by clergy sex scandals and deeply resentful of a government-imposed church tax, have grown cold _ and tens of thousands have left the church altogether. Read more
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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on Tuesday to give landmark designation to Congregation Tifereth Israel (1911), believed to be the oldest structure in Queens built as a synagogue. EstÃ©e Lauder attended services there as a young woman, and in 1979 and 1980 Madonna lived nearby in a building that used to be a yeshiva affiliated with the congregation. The two-story, wood-frame synagogue, right, designed by Crescent L. Varrone, at 109-18 54th Avenue in Corona, combines Gothic and Moorish design elements with Judaic ornaments: pointed-arched windows, a roundel with a Star of David in colored glass, and a gabled parapet. The original wooden stoop and railing have been replaced with a brick porch with an iron railing, and the wood clapboard siding has been covered with stucco. The design was modeled after synagogues on the Lower East Side, where the founders of the congregation, established in 1907, had originally lived. In 2002 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also on Tuesday, the commission voted for a third time to designate the Jamaica Savings Bank building, an 1898 Hough & Duell Beaux-Arts structure at 161-02 Jamaica Avenue, in Jamaica, as a landmark. Twice previously, the commissionâs landmark designation for that building has been overturned: by the Board of Estimate in 1975, and by the City Council in 1992. The buildingâs owner has agreed to support the current designation, which is expected to meet with Council approval.
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More than 60 years after the Nazis shut down Germany's only rabbinical school, the first rabbis will be ordained Thursday in a ceremony welcomed by many as confirmation that Jewish life can again flourish in ...
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- A panel of rabbis opened the way Wednesday to allow same-sex commitment ceremonies and the ordination of gays within Conservative Judaism, which occupies a difficult middle ground between orthodoxy and liberalism in American Judaism.