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Turning Jewish summer camp into year-round connection, confidence - opinion

Jewish summer camp gives children confidence and belonging. The challenge is carrying that sense of Jewish identity and resilience into everyday life.

 Groups participating in the summer camp programs.
A partisan bunker is seen in Rūdninkai Forest.

Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion

Ulrich Siegmund, top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state election, speaks at a party convention in Magdeburg, Germany, April 11, 2026.

Antisemitic ideology deeply embedded within the far-right German AfD party, new AJC report shows

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

Two killed at school near Berlin, suspected attacker detained


Third drone, suspected explosive substance found at German Leipzig/Halle airport

The drone was found on August 14, 10 days after the incident, to the west of the airport, where investigators also discovered about 50 grams of a substance they suspected to be a military explosive.

The empennages of a DHL cargo plane and Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Schkeuditz, Germany, August 5, 2026

German prosecutors identify likely suspect in deadly 1970 Munich Jewish center arson

On the evening of 13 February 1970, the building of the Jewish Community of Munich at 27 Reichenbachstraße in Munich, which was also a retirement home, was set alight using a petrol mixture.

Some hundreds of people gather on the square in front of the synagogue in Munich, during a protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019; illustrative

Which countries, tech giants around the world are regulating kids' social media access?

What are countries and companies doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over the impact of social media on children's health and safety?

Social media and the algorithm move faster than facts and claims can be verified.

The Odyssey holds a mirror to the breakdown of human society after October 7 - opinion

This may be history’s most important warning: Barbarism does not always come from outside. Sometimes it grows from within a society that regards itself as enlightened.

ZENDAYA PLAYS the apparition of Athena who appears to Odysseus (Matt Damon) and gives him some aphoristic guidance.

German giant acquires Israeli company for $575 million

Munich Re will acquire Israeli cyber insurer At-Bay for $575M. Founded in 2016 with 280 employees, the company will join Munich Re subsidiary HSB.

Munich Re to Acquire Israeli Cyber Insurer At-Bay for $575 Million.

German court convicts Ukrainian man over parcel bomb plot linked to Russia

For the Russian organizers of the plot, these shipments were designed to scope out potential opportunities for future acts of sabotage, the court said.

Defendants Daniil B., Vladyslav T. and Yevhen B. cover their faces as they arrive in the courtroom, where a court is expected to conclude the trial against the three Ukrainian nationals suspected of conspiracy to commit arson attacks on behalf of a Russian intelligence service.

German state bans anti-Israel ‘Palästina e.V.’ group over antisemitic propaganda, terror support

The state announced the ban on Tuesday, after an administrative court determined that Palästina e.V.'s purpose and activities go against Germany's constitutional order.

A protester holds a sign reading "One Holocaust Does Not Justify Another Genocide," with the last word written in German, as she attends a demonstration in support of Palestine on November 18, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.

Over 2,000 evacuated in western Germany due to raging wildfire near Belgian border

Residents were asked to leave their homes in the village of Gey at around 4:00 a.m. and go to an assistance center set up at a primary school in a nearby village, authorities said in a statement.

Flames and smoke rise during a wildfire near Montfort-sur-Argens, near Correns, in the Var department, as drought conditions worsen following a heatwave and water shortages across much of France, August 1, 2026.

Bus driver stops explosive-laden drone at major German NATO logistics hub

The drone was spotted at Germany's Leipzig/Halle, the main operational base for ​NATO's Strategic Airlift International Solution

The empennages of a DHL cargo plane and Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Schkeuditz, Germany, August 5, 2026

Germany faces daily 'hybrid warfare' attacks, minister warns after explosive drone found at airport

"We're not at war, but we are the daily target of hybrid warfare," Dobrindt said. "Espionage, sabotage, cyberattacks, or covert operations by foreign powers aimed at destabilizing Germany."

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (R) speaks to the media during a news conference at Leipzig/Halle Airport on August 5, 2026 near Leipzig, Germany.