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	First rabbis ordained in flashpoint German city since WWII The ceremony held at Cologne's synagogue prompted an impassioned plea for the circumcision ritual to be respected. the rite to be respected

German FM cautions Israel against striking Iran, as he tells Netanyahu Germany ‘stands together with Israel’ against the nuclear threat

The Israeli premier warns of the risk of Iran being able to reach 90% uranium enrichment in only six weeks.

German Jews unimpressed by ‘practical’ Berlin compromise on medical circumcisions

The ruling effectively outlaws the common practice of religious circumcisions by mohels in Judaism.

Merkel to inaugurate memorial to Roma victims of Nazis

The memorial, in a Berlin park opposite the Reichstag parliament building, was designed by Israeli artist Dani Karavan.

More Germany:

	Britain wants the EU to blacklist Hezbollah’s military wing
	German Foreign Minister in Israel : ‘In these challenging times Germany stands by its Israel partners’
	Israel's President Peres thanks his Cypriot counterpart for arrest of Hezbollah operatives as the EU prepares to discuss blacklisting the Lebanese group
	German FM Westerwelle : ‘Security for Israel cannot be taken for granted’
	Guido Westerwelle: ‘Anti-Semitism has no place neither in Berlin, nor in Budapest, nor anywhere else in Europe or in the world’
	EU Foreign Ministers ease oil sanctions on Syria to support financially the opposition
	Rabbinical Centre of Europe decries circumcision slurs on Berlin Rabbi as ‘truly saddening’

Germany and Israel
	German foreign minister in Israel visit
	Germany weighs the Hamas victory
	Israeli-Egyptian ambassadorial meeting in Berlin
	German chancellor meets Abbas after Hamas win
	Merkel visits Israel amid uncertainty following Hamas victory
	Germans and Israeli artists create comic-journalism book

Jews, Muslims stage circumcision march in Germany They demanded the right to circumcision after a disputed court ruling outlawing the religious ritual.		Tears, anger 40 years after Munich Olympics killings German magazine Der Spiegel has accused the government and Olympic organisers of covering up grave mistakes.

Daily quote

''Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Day in history

1943: First Jewish parachutist
Sent by the British, Peretz Rosenberg jumped behind German lines into Yugoslavia.

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Students talk Jewish in Croatian Summer University

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be awarded the "Prize of European Jewry-Lord Jakobovitz Prize" at a ceremony at the Great Synagogue of Europe in Brussels on May 22. She will be in the Belgian capital for an EU summit meeting.