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...scarf is just something that hides my hair." Germany has been grappling with these issues for more than a decade. In 1995, its Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from applying a state law requiring that crucifixes be hung in classrooms. (The verdict has since been skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden-Württemberg, but was rejected because she insisted on keeping her head veiled in the classroom. She sued the Stuttgart school authority, and after...
...Iraq. In France, the Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge of the Third Way. Back in the late 1990s, leaders like Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sold a pragmatic blend of fiscal realism...
...says that passion plays have traditionally had the unsettling effect of justifying anti-Semitism in their audiences. Though they were widespread throughout Europe until the 19th century, often provoking Christian violence towards Jews during Holy Week, he says, only one internationally recognized passion play is performed today, in the Bavarian village of Oberammergau...
What one item of clothing can you not live without? Bavarian Lederhosen, of course. What else...
...65th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the infamous pogrom against Jews launched by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Göbbels - and it's the day construction is set to begin on the city's first major synagogue since World War II. Hundreds of politicians and dignitaries, including German President Johannes Rau, Bavarian State Premier Edmund Stoiber and Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's Jewish community, will attend the groundbreaking ceremony. But if a ring of alleged neo-Nazis had its way, police say, Nov. 9 would also have been the day a bomb containing 1.7 kilos of TNT went off near...