Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom

By Yaniv Feller, Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, University of Florida

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain of prayer books and Torah scrolls lying in the dirt on the street, desecrated and set aflame.

It was 1938,…

Read complete article

~	Many of Israel’s Western supporters indicate they would arrest Netanyahu. Will Australia and NZ follow suit?

~	Rising antisemitism looms large over the lives of Jewish Australians. Here’s what can be done

~	After nearly 10 years of debate, COP29’s carbon trading deal is seriously flawed

~	Greens capitulate, announcing they will ‘wave through’ Labor’s Help to Buy and Build to Rent housing bills

~	Lebanon: US Arms Used in Israeli Strike on Journalists

~	The Australia-Pacific bid to host UN climate talks in 2026 is in limbo. What now?

~	Kenya: Justice Overdue for 2023 Protest Abuses

~	Haiti: Scarce Protection as Sexual Violence Escalates

~	Somaliland and Somalia: Competing narratives in the Horn of Africa

~	A milestone legal case from 35 years ago holds important lessons for how courts deal with scientific evidence today