Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking. The Pears Jewish Campus by the city’s Chabad community will officially open on Sunday.
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABERRabbi Yehuda Teichtal attends the unveiling of a graffiti wall at the entrance of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 12, 2023. The Pears Jewish Campus, run by the local Chabad community, is located in the German capital's Wilmersdorf neighbourhood and will be officially opened Sunday, June 25, 2023.
BERLIN — When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan were skeptical. But five years after the groundbreaking, Teichtal, a Berlin rabbi and head of the local Chabad community, beams as he steps onto the seventh-floor balcony of the new curved, blue-tiled building overlooking the campus amphitheater, garden, playground and a plot still covered with containers and construction material that will eventually become a sports field.
“We’re changing the narrative about Jews in Germany,” Teichtal told The Associated Press earlier this week.
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