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Police investigating threats against prominent Munich Holocaust survivor and AfD opponent

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026Jesse Orine

Police said they are investigating death threats made against a senior Jewish leader in Germany, after she criticized the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. A witness found graffiti scrawled in white ink on a park bench and a trash bin in Munich’s English Garden park, threatening the life of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch, […]

Germany’s far-right AfD makes gains in local elections, fended off by mainstream parties

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026Jesse Orine

The far-right Alternative for Germany party tripled its vote in Lower Saxony’s local elections from five years ago, coming in third in a race won by Germany’s leading conservative party. The nationalist, anti-immigrant AfD siphoned off votes from Germany’s mainstream parties in the northwestern state, home to 8 million people. The election was seen as […]

Meet Karin Prien, the woman who could become Germany’s first Jewish president

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026Jesse Orine

Living in Amsterdam in the years after World War II, Karin Prien’s parents’ bookshelves were lined with the works of Jewish authors like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer. When she was a young child and her family moved from the vibrant and multicultural city of Amsterdam to Neuwied, a small town in […]