Germany celebrates a historic milestone of Jewish culture while looking forward
As their community turns 1,700 this year, Germany’s Jews want to cast off the bleak history of the Holocaust in favor of a ‘living Judaism.’
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) memorials mark where Jews were taken from their homes or places of business during the Holocaust. Photo by Hans Braxmeier/Pixabay/Creative Commons
May 6, 2021
BERLIN (RNS) In an early scene from last year’s darkly comic film “Masel Tov Cocktail,” the teenage protagonist, Dimitrij “Dima” Liebermann, is lounging in a German city park, reflecting on how he broke the nose of a classmate who insulted him for being Jewish.
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Analysis: Russia s secret services betray their weakness
Spying, attacks, murder: Moscow s secret services have shown they are capable of striking even in the heart of the West. However, intelligence expert Christopher Nehring says they are marked by failure and limited means.
The Russian secret services, above all the GRU, are in a state of war
So far, 2021 has been the year of Russian intelligence, with four spectacular operations exposed in the last four months. In Berlin, Jens F., an electrician with a Stasi past, was caught selling Bundestag construction plans to secret service agents at the Russian Embassy. In Bulgaria, a Russian spy ring was uncovered around the ex-military intelligence officer Ivan Iliev. In Italy, a frigate captain named Walter Biot was found to be selling military information.
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Clear messaging and transparency are vital, say some experts on risk assessment and decision-making
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Unforeseen safety issues routinely emerge after any new medicine or vaccine goes from testing in tens of thousands of volunteers to actual public use on tens of millions. So it was no major surprise when an extremely small percentage of people developed a strange blood clotting problem after receiving either the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine or the AstraZeneca shot, which is widely used outside of the U.S.
Rare but dangerous side effects from vaccines can present a tricky dilemma for public health authorities. In this case, the life-threatening blood clots, accompanied by an oddly low count of clot-promoting platelets, appear to strike about two individuals per million people vaccinated with J&J’s shot and about one per 100,000 receiving AstraZeneca’s. Both are minuscule risks, compared with COVID-19 itself, which, by one estimate, k