Berthold Beitz, who died on 30 July at the age of 99, was honoured for saving hundreds of Jews in Poland during the Second World War and became one of post-war West Germany's leading industrialists.
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The Holocaust ambassadors asked to ensure that the crime is never forgotten
Sunday 28 July 2013
How one charity is sending British children to Israel for an education in genocide that they can take home
Simon Callow gets inside the ‘anti-Semitic, psychotic’ head of Wagner for one-man show
Sunday 28 July 2013
The actor Simon Callow has promised to take audiences to a “dark, murky, unsettling place”, with a new one-man stage show that explores the composer Richard Wagner’s “toxic” and “disgusting” anti-Semitism.
Neo-Nazi Italian GP has bust of Hitler in library
Friday 26 July 2013
Italy’s dubious relationship with far-right politics is in the spotlight again with news that an unabashed neo-Nazi doctor has been reported to the country’s health ministry.
Paperback review: Ignorance, By Michèle Roberts
Saturday 20 July 2013
Ignorance tells the story of two French girls whose friendship is interrupted by the Second World War.
Postcard from... Berlin
Saturday 20 July 2013
Judges have ruled that the latest hit song from the controversial rap artist Bushido can be sold only to adults.
Fatah pays tribute to Ilan Halevi - an Israeli Jew who ‘defected’ to the PLO
Thursday 11 July 2013
The Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian premier, is planning a memorial for Ilan Halevi, an Israeli Jew who rose high in the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Palestinians paid tribute after the official PLO news agency, Wafa, confirmed that Mr Halevi had died in Paris on Wednesday aged 69.
Orthodox protest stops women's group from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall
Monday 08 July 2013
Seven thousand Orthodox school children prevented members of a women’s group, who are campaigning for equal worship rights, from praying at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Monday.
Anti-Semitic teacher loses tribunal claim that his views are a legitimate 'philosophical belief'
Friday 05 July 2013
The man was sacked after allegations of anti-Semitic abuse
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's stance on Palestine to come under scrutiny
Wednesday 26 June 2013
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, met members of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. He also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and prayed at the Western Wall.
Restaurant 1701, Bevis Marks Synagogue, London
Saturday 22 June 2013
Well, this is awkward. I've arranged to meet David Baddiel at Restaurant 1701, a smart new kosher restaurant in the grounds of Britain's oldest synagogue, but I'm having trouble finding it. David has phoned me to say he has arrived, and "it's much more Jewish than I was expecting".
Hungary charges Nazi police chief suspect Laszlo Csatary with war crimes
Tuesday 18 June 2013
98-year-old accused of overseeing murder of thousand of Jewish prisoners during Second World War
Wu Ming on Altai and the political subjectivity of writing as a collective
Wednesday 12 June 2013
The Italian socialist authors' sequel to Q has finally been translated into English after a four year wait. James Legge meets half of their number
Orthodox Jews’ annual getaway to Aberystwyth falls foul of health and safety
Wednesday 29 May 2013
University authorities have said the holidaymakers are no longer allowed to light candles on a Friday night to usher in Shabbat
Berlin to provide $1bn for Nazis’ Jewish victims
Tuesday 28 May 2013
A fund for Jewish victims of Nazi crimes says it has reached an agreement for Berlin to provide $1bn (£655m) in homecare for victims.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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