Tag: Josef Schuster

Back in 2018, Central Council of Jews in Germany president Schuster described the attack as: "It is five past midnight."

185 Olim arrived from Germany in 2018. On the other hand, an estimated 20,000 Israelis have settled in Germany.

AfD members have expressed racist, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic views associated with neo-Nazism.

official figures showing that the number of attacks against Jews in Germany increased 10% in one year, from 1,504 in 2017 to 1,646 in 2018. The number of reported violent cases against Jews rose from 37 to 62 over the same period.

About 300 Jewish soldiers serve in the Bundeswehr today.

Chief Rabbi Lau responded on Tuesday that the best way to battle anti-Semitism is to immigrate to Israel, but that all Jews in Germany and throughout the Diaspora must continue to wear the kippah and other Jewish symbols.

"Experience has shown that openly wearing a kippa or a necklace with the Star of David is enough to attract verbal or physical threats."

'Whoever thinks that integration can be achieved in two years, is fooling themselves.'

On May 19, 1943, Germany was declared Judenrein (clean of Jews), with no Jewish high schools. Now we're back to three, and counting.

German law prohibits the open display of Nazi memorabilia, but not their purchase or ownership by folks who just wonder what it would be like to own the Reichsminister of Aviation's silk shorts.

Josef Schuster fears the fact that many of the refugees seeking asylum in Germany come from countries hostile to Israel might bolster anti-Semitic views among the Arab community.