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Dialogical Lecture Series
Overview of all recorded dialogical lectures from this series by the Jewish-Islamic Forum
Video Recordings
2015–2020
Our Academy’s Jewish-Islamic Forum
Thematic focus of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy, 2012–20
All About ...

Cherchez la femme
Wig, Burqa, Wimple
Exhibition
31 Mar to 27 Aug 2017

Online Platform Jewish Places
On the Topography of Jewish Life in Germany
Online Project
Since 2018
Self Displaced Person. Peter Szondi’s Problematic Judaism
Andreas Isenschmid on Judaism in the life and work of Peter Szondi, in German
Audio Recording
3 Dec 2007

Is anyone still waiting for the Messiah? – Jewish and Christian Views
With Prof. Christoph Markschies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Prof. Daniel Krochmalnik (University of Potsdam), in German
Video Recording
24 Aug 2021

From the Theory to the Practice of Writing the Torah
Miriam Goldmann in conversation with Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov
Interview
2014

From Cowpox to Covid-19
Nearly 200 years of vaccine certificates document Jewish stances on vaccination
Online Feature
2021/22

Four questions – what does it mean to be Jewish?
This workshop is suitable for grades 5 to 13 as well as for adults (in German).
Digital Workshop
by appointment

Religion and Ritual. Are There Jewish Things?
For groups
Workshop
By appointment

Hand Washbasin
Unusual objects tell stories of Jewish life
Objects from Our Core Exhibition

Religion and Ritual
Guided tour for groups through our core exhibition
Guided Tour
By appointment

What role do gender themes play?
What’s the story with women rabbis? (And prayer at the Western Wall?)
Question of the Month

Why do some Jews rock back and forth while they pray?
Question of the Month

Between Marrakesh and Mashhad
Jews in Islamic Countries
Film and Reading Series
2016/2017
Modernized, then Tolerated?
Do religions need reformation or do they have a history that we do not really understand?, in German
Audio Recording
10 Oct 2013
The Fragile Foundation: The Quest for German-Jewish “Normalcy”
Audio recording of the talk by Salomon Korn, in German
Audio Recording
30 Sep 2003
A synagogue curtain at the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter
Book presentation by Vera Bendt, in German
Audio Recording
23 Nov 2006

JMB Journal 10: Body
Publication
2014

JMB Journal 8: The Whole Truth...
Special issue for the exhibition, with reading sample for download
Publication
2013

Highlights from the Braginsky Collection
Publication accompanying the exhibition The Creation of the World, in German
Publication
2011

A Time for Everything. Rituals against Forgetting
Exhibition catalog, with reading sample for download
Publication
2013

JMB Journal 6: Generations
Publication
2012

Siegfried Leopold’s Get for His Wife Resi
Ritual bill of divorce under Jewish law
From our Holdings

Snip it!Stances on Ritual Circumcision
Exhibition
24 Oct 2014 to 1 Mar 2015

Obedience
An Installation in 15 Rooms by Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway
Exhibition
22 May to 15 Nov 2015

The Whole Truth ...Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews
Exhibition
22 Mar to 1 Sep 2013

Kosher – Don't You Have That in Islam, Too?
An exchange program between two Berlin schools
Project Documentation

The Creation of the World
Illustrated Manuscripts from the Braginsky Collection
Exhibition
4 Apr to 3 Aug 2014

JMB Journal 9: Times
Publication
2013

Veiled
Exhibition on religious clothing in the Diaspora Garden
Exhibition
1 Jun to 1 Sep 2017
Lecture Series 2019/20: The Others’ Faith (6)
Lecture Series 2018/19: Science and Faith in Judaism and Islam (5)
Lecture Series 2017/18: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights (6)
Lecture Series 2016/17: Ethical Questions in Judaism and Islam (with video recordings) (6)
Lecture Series 2015/16: Judaism & Islam in the Diaspora (5)