Much more than just a "Jewish clown at intermission", Germany's most biting satirical journalist and critic of political Islam wins the prestigious Börne prize. Since the days of the Weimar Republic, ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. In a case that ...

A gag order banning a German-Jewish journalist from calling a critic of Israel anti-Semitic was withdrawn. In a split decision handed down Wednesday, a Cologne district court said Henryk Broder may ...

BERLIN (JTA) — A Jewish journalist who has subjected German Jewish leaders to tough criticism says he wants to run the leadership of Germany’s Jewish community. Henryk Broder, who writes for Der ...

BERLIN — America’s ears must be burning. On German television, a theater director sniffs that the only U.S. creation worth mentioning is chewing gum. A book doubting that al-Qaeda terrorists launched ...

Germany has not tested its freedom of expression so deeply since the saga of Mozart's Idomeneo in 2006 when the Deutsche Oper Company canceled the opera because there was the severed head of Muhammad ...

Advocates of realpolitik in foreign affairs contend the best policy is the one based on a realistic assessment of the relative powers, interests and possibilities of any given situation. These same ...

This past weekend was the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against German Jews, and European commentary focused predictably on the traditional anti-Semitic threats from the far ...

German protestor decapitates Fuhrer's look-alike at Madame Tussauds in Berlin. PASSAU, Germany, July 7, 2008 — -- "Finally, a Hitler assassination that worked," Henryk Broder, essayist and ...