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Peter Schäfer: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism
Discussion with the Author, Christoph Markschies, and Micha Brumlik
Audio recording
25 June 2012
Modernized, then Tolerated?
Do religions need reformation or do they have a history that we do not really understand?
Audio recording
10 October 2013
Zimzum. God and the creation of the world
Micha Brumlik and Vivian Liska in conversation with the author Christoph Schulte
Audio recording
30 October 2014
The Book of Job. Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
Book presentation
Audio recording
21 January 2015
Judaism and Islam in the Diaspora
An event series by the Jewish-Islamic Forum (with video recordings)
Dialogical lecture series
2015/16
Obedience
An Installation in 15 Rooms by Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway
Exhibition
22 May to 15 Nov 2015
Matters of Faith: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Nine animated movies
Video Project
2011
JMB Journal 12: Ban on Images
Publication
2015
Dialogues on Jewish Present: On the Question of Redemption – Messianism and the End of Days
Lectures and Discussion with Moshe Idel and Elliot R. Wolfson. Chair: Micha Brumlik
Audio recording
10 December 2009
Holidays: Old Rituals, New Customs (15)
Old Rituals, New Customs
Museum employees talk about traditions on Jewish holidays.
New Customs for the New Year
Shlomit Tripp about tashlikh boats and petals on the water
Kol Nidre and the “Civil Improvement of the Jews”
Haim Mahlev on controversies throughout the ages
Apples in Honey and Gefilte Fish
Museum employees share their personal experiences of the High Holidays
Interview
2013
Cycling Holiday
Avner Ofrath on Yom Kippur in Israel
Jewish Halloween
Naomi Lubrich on candy as a tricky matter for synagogues on Simhat Torah
Menurkeys for Thanksgivukkah?
Food for thought and recipes by Signe Rossbach
“8 Facts” about Hanukkah
David Studniberg on the Jewish Feast of Dedication
“If I were a rich mouse ...”
Michal Friedlander on Mickey, Minnie and their Hanukkah message
2015
In the Sleeping Car with Ten Hand-puppets and a Travel Hanukkah Candelabrum
Shlomit Tripp on her Hanukkah with the bubales family
Tu bi-Shevat Traditions in Israel
Avner Ofrath on trees, fruit, and a breath of New Age
“Clever Esther”— Not Suitable for Children?!
Shlomit Tripp reports about her child-oriented retelling of the Esther story
Across Mannheim in the Matzo-Mobile
David Studniberg about the great feeling to support others during the corona crisis
Report
Apr 2020
The Big Clean-Up
Dana Akrish on Passover in Jerusalem
Essay
Mar 2018
A Kind of Family Gathering
Bitter Herbs and Their Relatives in the Diaspora Garden
Essay
2017
The Long Night of Tikkun
Mirjam Wenzel and Avner Ofrath about what we can learn from loving women
Essay
May 2013