Tied to a year-long sponsored celebration of 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany, state-sponsored program uses humor to familiarize Germans with Jewish culture

'We need deep knowledge in order to be able to efficiently fight it,' says German Education and Research Minister Anja Karliczek

In Goerlitz, a city on Germany's eastern border that's home to 30 Jews, the magnificent Art Deco building is rededicated as a Jewish house of worship and interfaith gathering space

Hungarian-born Rabbi Zsolt Balla says he feels a 'historic responsibility' to serve Jewish soldiers

The son of a Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Mordechai Balla says one of the most important aspects of his new job is educating non-Jewish soldiers while ministering to all faiths' needs

Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer (Zsolt) Balla says he will 'help all Jews live a Jewish life,' and will aim to curb far-right extremism; new military rabbinate budgeted 5 million euros

Alienated by ostensible allies on the political left, the would-be US politician says she prefers knowing to look over her shoulder as an outsider, rather than be taken by surprise

Balcony of JCC in Russian capital suffers extensive damage in attack, swastika painted on structure; window smashed at Düsseldorf prayer house

The darkly comic 30-minute flick by Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch pokes fun at a society still not fully at ease with its Jews; it's now screening at online film festivals

The government supports the Jewish community, but unchecked hate and violent attacks from far-right and Muslim populations and a rapidly aging demographic have some eying the door