The 9th Day of Av “For a Voice of Wailing is Heard out of Zion”
A Jewish trauma and a holiday
The story goes that Napoleon Bonaparte traveled through the Jewish section of a city in Russia on Tisha B’Av. He rode by a synagogue, where he heard people wailing and crying. Napoleon turned to the bereft [...]
Phasing out Nuclear Power
Federal Environment Minister Peter Altmaier on the transition from nuclear power to renewables
With the Energy Concept of 2010 and the decisions taken by the government and the Bundestag following Fukushima, Germany embarked on a new energy era. [...]
It’s the emotions, stupid!
New ways to combat anti-Semitism and racism are needed
The other day, Mehmet, a taxi driver and native Berliner in his early thirties, asked me if I thought it’s fair that Germany is still paying billions to Israel? Do we? I asked. I started [...]
Gerhard Richter Festival
The 80-year old master artist captures German life, love, death and history
Berlin is celebrating a great German painter. Works of Gerhard Richter, who recently turned 80, are being shown simultaneously at three different Berlin venues, and long [...]
New German Jewry – Made by Russians
Formerly discriminated “Ostjuden” are now the backbone of Jewish life
More than 200,000 Jews have emigrated from the former Soviet Union to Germany in recent years – they are the future of German Jewry.
Those who think statically [...]