Insiders Berlin

The New Synagogue in Berlin is by a very long shot my favourite. This is partly because I have attended a wedding and several Bar-Mitzvahs there, and have come to love the close community feel of the small congregation that still worships in the New Synagogue. But it is also because of the amazing building […]

Peer through the heavy gates outside the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Prenzlauer Berg and you could be forgiven for thinking that there is not much there, especially when it is compared to the ostentatious Moorish facade of the New Synagogue on Oranjenburgerstrasse in Mitte. Yet step inside Rykestrasse’s synagogue and you will find yourself in a huge […]

No matter how many Jewish museums or holocaust memorials you have been to, the Jewish Museum in Berlin will astound you. This museum is remarkable for managing to reduce unimaginable horror to a very human scale. In part it does this through the building itself. The design, by Daniel Libeskind, is intended to create the […]