In February 1939 in New York, the fascist American German Bund and its self-proclaimed “Führer” Fritz Julius Kuhn celebrated the high point of the American National Socialist movement. 22,000 supporters had gathered in Madison Square Garden at an event modeled on the Nuremberg party rallies. Violent protests from opponents accompanied the meeting, and 1,700 police … Read more
For his services to Jewish life in Lower Saxony, the chairman of the state association, Michael Fürst, received the state’s Grand Cross of Merit in Hanover on Friday. Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) honored him at a reception of the Jewish state association as an “outstanding representative of Judaism in Lower Saxony”. With the reception … Read more
Having nightmares may be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease, a new study reveals. A team from the University of Birmingham says older men who have frequent nightmares are more than three times more likely to develop the disease later on. Apparently there is something happening in the brains of patients – before the disease … Read more
The Jewish Student Union Germany (JSUD) is organizing a poster campaign on the night of January 26th to 27th, 2022 to commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. This campaign is carried out in cooperation with the Sinti and Roma Pride initiative. At 15 locations (Berlin, Cologne, Bielefeld, Mannheim, Bremen, Munich, Frankfurt, Neumünster, … Read more
After the liberation of the last Dachau concentration camp with its many branch offices, after the end of the death marches and the desperate efforts to keep the “rest of the rescued”, the “Scherit Hapleita”, physically alive, developed within a very short time and at the same time as a transit commemorated diverse Jewish life … Read more
It is perhaps understandable that we are shocked by the monkey pox virus so short of Covid-19. But the monkeypox virus is not a real threat. Other viruses are. Business AM summarizes some real threats: “In the past three weeks, there have been nearly 100 cases and 18 human deaths from a rare tick-borne disease … Read more
For the first time, a patient has been injected with an experimental cancer-killing virus. There is still a long way to go, but eventually it must reach the market as a successful method of fighting cancer. The drug, called CF33-hNIS, is an oncolytic virus, a genetically modified smallpox virus, designed to infect and kill cancer … Read more
During a concert by metal band Tool in the Ziggo Dome, many fans were thrown out of the room because of dancing in the aisle or taking a photo. The American security guards are in charge and do not tolerate contradiction. The American metal band Tool has been impressing with their epic music style for … Read more
We want to get rid of Russian gas as soon as possible. The alternative? Green energy. But even then we are not independent: we desperately need China. Or how the French journalist and metal expert Guillaume Pitron (1980) describes it: ‘We free ourselves from the clutches of the Russian bear by running straight into the … Read more
Both interest rates and inflation are soaring. House prices have almost doubled since the low in 2013. Is the bubble about to burst? Opinions are divided. “There is simply too much demand.” “An increase in interest rates and possibly also unemployment. You can see that reflected in house prices,” says housing market economist Stefan Groot … Read more