“We are a symbol of the spiritual renaissance of Jewish life after the Shoah,” says Rabbi Edward van Voolen about the new European Center for Jewish Scholarship, which will open in Potsdam on August 18. The accommodation of three rabbinical seminars under one roof and the construction of a new synagogue give the opportunity for … Read more
According to British media, the kidnapper in a synagogue in the US state of Texas was known to the British secret service. MI5 was keeping an eye on the Blackburn man in 2020, the BBC and the PA news agency reported on Tuesday. At the time he left for the United States, the 44-year-old was … Read more
The director Julia von Heinz doesn’t do things by halves: Hannas Reise was a German-Israeli story in which every joke sat, and that means something in German cinema. The film adaptation of Hape Kerkeling’s bestseller I am then away was perfect mainstream cinema on an international level. And tomorrow the whole world convinced as uncompromising … Read more
Last Sunday, the first light of the ten-meter-high Hanukkiah was lit at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. At the solemn ceremony at the beginning of the eight-day Hanukkah festival, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, chairman of Chabad Berlin and municipal rabbi of the Jewish Community in Berlin, welcomed the President of the Bundestag Bärbel Bas, Bundestag Vice-President … Read more
Israel ended the controversial cell phone monitoring of corona patients infected with the Omicron variant after a few days. In view of “the updated assessment of the situation,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz decided to do so, Bennett’s office announced on Thursday evening. The cell phone surveillance by the domestic … Read more
Great Britain and Israel want to work together more closely in the future and are calling for a tougher course in dealing with Iran. This was agreed on Monday by British Foreign Minister Liz Truss and her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid at a meeting in London. The areas for increased cooperation therefore include defense, trade, … Read more
“Especially now, when it is increasingly dark and cold again and the number of cases is rising again, we shouldn’t lose sight of people who are homeless and cannot adequately protect themselves from the cold or the pandemic.” With these words, Natalie Kajzer from Düsseldorf sums up her motivation to take part in Mitzvah Day, … Read more
His first patient was himself, said the American psychiatrist Aaron Temkin Beck, who revolutionized behavioral therapy in the 1960s. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1921, the youngest of three surviving children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He broke his arm at the age of eight. Because sepsis developed, he had to stay … Read more
His hand went up immediately when the class asked who would like to take part in the memorial service for pogrom night. “It’s very important to me,” says Roman, a student at the Albert Einstein Grammar School in Düsseldorf, which is helping to organize the celebration on November 9 at the commemorative sign “Grafenberger Allee … Read more
The German Historical Museum (DHM) has acquired the “Wolfgang Haney Collection” with tens of thousands of evidence of anti-Semitism. In 30 years of work, Holocaust contemporary witness Haney (1924-2017) had collected 15,000 objects on the history of anti-Semitism, the persecution and murder of European Jews and current forms of right-wing extremism, as the DHM announced … Read more