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German police are investigating a growing number of hateful and anti-Semitic comments being left in online Google reviews of the Jewish synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle. Almost exactly five years ago, on October 9, 2019, a far-right extremist attacker attempted to storm the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, and cause a massacre. When he failed to get inside the building, he murdered two people nearby. A police spokeswoman on Saturday confirmed the investigation into the Google comments. Many of the reviews, posted in recent weeks, have a clear connection to the …

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