Jonathan Schorsch News Today

(JTA) Approximately one-thousand people — most of them Israelis living in Berlin — gathered Thursday at the iconic Brandenburg Gate here to show solidarity with protests against judicial reform in

The scandal has shaken the foundations of modern liberal Judaism in Germany, and the report suggests that those foundations were weak because they rested largely on one individual.

Investigators commissioned by main Jewish group find that possibly criminal abuse of power and sexual harassment occurred at liberal rabbinical seminary under Rabbi Walter Homolka

The Jewish News of Northern California

The Gercke Wollschläger firm will examine “allegations of sexualized harassment and abuse of power” at Abraham Geiger College, the Central Council of Jews in Germany announced last week.

Rabbi Homolka's husband accused of sending lewd messages to students; rabbi, others said to have covered up alleged misconduct in 'biggest scandal' to hit postwar Jewish community

(JTA) — The founding director of Germany’s liberal rabbinical seminary is taking a leave of absence amid allegations of sexual harassment against his husband, the seminary’s spokesperson, and criticism of

Accusations of sexual harassment have rocked Germanys leading rabbinical training center. The allegations have shined the spotlight on one of the countrys most influential Jewish officials.

Rabbi Walter Homolka: “All activists have opponents. I always strive to do the right thing in my work, and I am convinced that I have behaved correctly here as well.”

The leave came after a leading German newspaper reported allegations against Rabbi Walter Homolka and his husband, the spokesperson for Abraham Geiger College.