Berlin’s synagogue and school project to fight anti-Semitism

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Published: 19 March 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

MOST GERMANS KNOW the eastern half of Berlin's Kreuzberg district as one of the most conspicuously Turkish and Muslim areas of the country. So the symbolism of rebuilding a synagogue there is impossible to overlook.

And as if to underscore the significance of this project, the same day representatives of the city government and Berlin's Jewish community publicly introduced their plans, a major local paper reported that the number of anti-Semitic crimes committed in the city increased almost 100 percent between 2013 and 2017, from 149 to 288.

FULL STORY Berlin fights anti-Semitism with synagogue, Jewish secondary school (DW)

Image: Design concept for the new synagogue (d-form Architektenburo)