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Mar. 4, 2021
When Germany’s main Jewish organization sought to help the community when the coronavirus crisis hit last year, it faced two unique problems: The Jewish community is scattered across more than 100 locations nationwide; and many local Jews struggle to understand German having emigrated from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.
The Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany, founded in 1917, was well placed to meet those challenges, though, and to assist the country’s estimated 116,000 Jews, as the board’s main task in recent decades has been to aid the Russian Jews who headed west.
“One of the first things our organization did was to translate all the COVID-19-related information to Russian,” the organization’s head of communications, Laura Cazés, tells Haaretz. And it wasn’t just facts the board disseminated. “We have a very hands-on approach, which means we’re physically present in the Jewish communities across Germany, delivering more than
Jewish Ledger
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
By Joe Baur
BERLIN (JTA) – There’s a swastika drawn inside of a high school bathroom stall. Dima Liebermann, the protagonist of the German short film “Masel Tov Cocktail,” uses a marker to alter the hate symbol, giving it eyes and wings.
“Nice owl,” a woman smoking in the stall with Dima says.
“Nazi owl,” he replies with a smirk.
So begins the darkly comic 30-minute film on a day in the life as a young Jewish person in Germany, which pokes fun at several layers of a society still not fully comfortable with how to interact with its Jewish population.
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There’s a swastika drawn inside of a high school bathroom stall. Dima Liebermann, the protagonist of the German short film “Masel Tov Cocktail,” uses a marker to alter the hate symbol, giving it eyes and wings.