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Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Roger Waters on stage in Berlin, May 2023 (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 8, 2023, 4:33 pm
Roger Waters resumes Nazi act in London that he’d dropped following Germany uproar
Senior UK politicians slam Pink Floyd bassist, who is under a criminal investigation for wearing a costume resembling a Waffen-SS uniform in Berlin
By Canaan Lidor
A man wearing VR goggles is seen next to a screen depicting Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher at the Meta hub in Berlin on June 6, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 7:00 pm
In first, artificial intelligence used for Holocaust education
Visitors in Berlin can converse with an AI-generated avatar based on interviews held with a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
By Deborah Cole
Footage of a rally against Israel in Berlin uploaded to YouTube on April 9, 2023. (democ./Screenshot from YouTube)
May 1, 2023, 1:47 pm
Berlin police ban pro-Hamas signs, lsrael flag burning during May Day rallies
Weeks after antisemitic demonstrations in German capital, strict rules announced ahead of left-wing gathering
By Lazar Berman
Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim arrives for a ceremony to award him honorary citizenship of the German capital in Berlin, Germany, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 22, 2023, 8:07 am
Israeli-Argentine conductor Barenboim made Berlin citizen of honor
Mayor pays tribute to 80-year-old’s musical talent, commitment to Israeli and Palestinian communication; he recently ended 3-decade tenure as musical director of Berlin State Opera
By AP
Footage of a rally against Israel in Berlin uploaded to YouTube on April 9, 2023. (democ./Screenshot from YouTube)
April 12, 2023, 1:28 am
‘Death to the Jews’ chants heard at Berlin pro-Palestinian rally
Local police investigating; use of phrases could be criminal offense under Germany’s post-World War II hate speech laws
By JTA and ToI Staff
A man looks to a painting '4900 Colours (excerpt)' in a new exhibition with art works of German artist Gerhard Richter at the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 31, 2023, 7:09 pm
Berlin museum displays works by artist who grapples with Germany’s Nazi past
Basis of Gerhard Richter paintings are 4 abstract photos secretly taken in 1944 by Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, who risked their lives doing so
By Kirsten Grieshaber
MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution Committee, at a committee meeting at the Knesset March 19, 2023 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2023, 1:06 pm
Daily Briefing March 20: A chaotic pre-Passover judicial push
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses diplomatic talks ahead of Ramadan, as legal reporter Jeremy Sharon deciphers the latest legal overhaul issue
By ToI Staff
Louis Hofmann (as Cioma Schönhaus) and Luna Wedler (as Gerda) in 'The Forger.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
March 15, 2023, 6:02 am
How a young Jewish man with a talent for forgery hid in plain sight in WWII Berlin
Now playing in the US, the German-language feature film ‘The Forger’ recounts true-life story of the spirited Cioma Schönhaus, who created documents that saved hundreds of lives
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A boy dances to celebrate Purim at a party in a hotel in Berlin, Germany, March 7, 2023. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
March 8, 2023, 6:35 am
Ukrainian refugees celebrate Purim in Berlin, but fears of war linger
Hundreds attend Chabad party in German capital, including dozens of orphans from Odesa and young students, but some remain fearful for relatives back home
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Sada, second from right, gets a balloon on her birthday after she arrived from an orphanage in Odesa, Ukraine, at a hotel in Berlin, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP/Steffi Loos)
February 22, 2023, 6:03 am
Year after fleeing to Berlin, Jewish orphans gird for return to war-ravaged Odesa
Burdened by high cost of keeping them in Germany and donation shortfall, Mishpacha Orphanage says it will join flood of Ukrainians returning home even as fighting continues to rage
By Deborah Danan
Israeli-Argentine pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim talks with The Associated Press during an interview, at La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy, February 14, 2023. (AP/Luca Bruno)
February 15, 2023, 4:31 pm
Argentine-Israeli maestro Barenboim lives day by day, balancing music with illness
Conductor troubled by current situation in Israel; says that en route to Jewish state at age 10, parents prevented him from playing in Germany due to memory of Holocaust
By Colleen Barry
Ariel Leizgold of the Bellboy Group pours a cocktail (Courtesy PR)
January 20, 2023, 11:06 am
Podcast: Tel Aviv’s cocktail master talks hospitality and mixes a boulevardier
Ariel Leizgold, a founder of the Bellboy bar group, credits his Russian-born parents for teaching him how to pour vodka and make people feel at home
By Jessica Steinberg
This file photo taken on September 29, 2017 shows conductor Daniel Barenboim posing for a photo at the State Opera in Berlin (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
January 6, 2023, 7:44 pm
Israeli-Argentine conductor Barenboim resigns from Berlin opera over ill health
Storied maestro has been acclaimed for a stellar career that saw him begin performing internationally as a pianist aged 10
By Deborah Cole
The iconic photo of a Hanukkah menorah with Nazi flags waving across the road, taken by Rachel Posner, wife of then-Kiel Rabbi Akiva Posner, in Kiel, Germany, 1931. (Courtesy)
December 18, 2022, 7:34 pm
Menorah from iconic photo with Nazi flag to be lit at Berlin Hanukkah ceremony
Candle-lighting event will be held with photographer’s grandchildren and German president on second night of holiday, 90 years after family fled looming genocide
By Michael Horovitz
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