Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. In 2022, an email arrived ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walid Aljwabra (left) and his wife Rehab Daioub Naser (right) cook Syrian food in their apartment in Berlin-Karow – photographed ...
Scott Mayerowitz grew up in New Jersey in a household with resentment toward Germany, his family’s motherland. He has ancestors who were killed in the Holocaust, and his Jewish grandparents were ...
This spring, at age 62, I was naturalized as a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany. Becoming “German” at this stage in life was both calculated and fraught. I was born in the United States and ...
BERLIN, Germany – It took Bilal Aljaber almost two years to reach Europe. However, when the 27-year-old refugee from Syria finally arrived in Germany in January 2015, he had serious misgivings. "I had ...
In 2022, an email arrived from Dr. Matthias Weniger, curator at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, asking Gaby Gropman if she was the granddaughter of Sigmund Marx. “Yes” was the reply, whereupon ...