Synagogues in germany

'Kill all Jews:' Synagogue defaced with swastika, apartments graffitied in German cities

The Cottbus Synagogue was found vandalized with a swastika painted on its facade before dawn Monday, Brandenburg Police said, marking the second defacement of the Jewish house of worship in four days

Graffiti calling for the death of Jews found in Berlin on April 26, 2026.
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 Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, April 6, 2024.

Munich citizens form human chain around synagogue to protect from pro-Palestine rally

 Police secure the area of the embassy of Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 20, 2024

German police arrest man for throwing Molotov cocktail at synagogue after TV appeal


'A wake-up call': Israel's consulate in Munich attacked

"It is important that this is seen as a wake-up call for the German authorities about where antisemitism and hatred of Israel are leading."

 Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, April 6, 2024.

Hundreds of Germans form ‘human shield’ to protect synagogue

An estimated 350 people stood outside of Berlin’s Frankelufer Synagogue on Friday to symbolically protect it.

 A STAR OF DAVID placed at the center of the gate of a memorial that the survivors of Bavarian Jewry established in the Dachau concentration camp, just a few miles from Munich.

85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg

The Bornplatz Synagogue, a neo-Romanesque, 1,200-seat sanctuary that was once the largest synagogue in northern Germany, was burned down on Kristallnacht in 1938.

 The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht.

Medieval German synagogue added to UNESCO World Heritage list

The Old Synagogue dates back to the 1090s, when its first stones were laid.

 A UNESCO sign is seen at the UNESCO headquarters, on the day of the opening of the second session of negotiations around a future treaty on tackling plastic pollution, in Paris, France, May 29, 2023.

New synagogue in Dresden plans to operate outside of Germany’s Jewish mainstream

Weingarten’s Synagogue Neustadt is housed in a refurbished, mid-19th century train station main hall.

 Synagogue Neustadt in Dresden.

Battle lines deepen in bruising fight for control of Germany’s liberal Jewish institutions

It is virtually assured that yet more slings and arrows will fly before all is said and done - the UPJ could even break apart.

POTSDAM UNIVERSITY – ‘the new nucleus of Jewish Studies in Germany.’

Synagogues destroyed on Kristallnacht to be digitally ‘reconstructed’

Digitally reconstructed synagogues will be projected on buildings in Germany during a commemoration ceremony for Kristallnacht.

Illustrative image of a synagogue.

Yom Kippur attack on German synagogue averted by police

Authorities received a "a very serious tip" that an attack on the synagogue in the town of Hagen could take place during the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur.

German police 311 AP

Potsdam’s stylish new synagogue is the German city’s first since WWII

The full cost of the project, 13.5 million euros, was covered by the state of Brandenburg.

POTSDAM UNIVERSITY – ‘the new nucleus of Jewish Studies in Germany.’

Amid pandemic, Halle Jews forced out of synagogue again year after attack

The synagogue was full to its capacity of about 100 last October when a white supremacist gunman tried to blast open the building’s armored door on Yom Kippur.

A view of the synagogue in Halle, Germany, July 28, 2020.