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Berkach / Grabfeld (dpa / th) - In the village of Berkach, a meeting center for young people of different faiths is to be built after the idea of an association and the Jewish state community.
Young people of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith, but also atheists, should be able to meet there for exchange in the future.
"With the synagogue, the Jewish school, the mikveh [a Jewish ritual bath] and the Jewish cemetery, Berkach is an essential center of former rural Jewry in Germany, which is relatively well preserved," said the chairman of the regional community, Reinhard Schramm.
The expansion of the school would be a good idea, in order to create a kind of youth hostel there.
On site, the association Jüdisches Ensemble Berkach is very keen to develop the meeting center, said Schramm.
On Tuesday evening, a lecture is planned in the synagogue there, which, among other things, should bring more attention and support to the idea for the meeting center.
The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, speaks about the importance of the Jewish Passover and the Christian Easter.
The lecture is part of the “Torah is Life” project in the theme year “Nine Centuries of Jewish Life in Thuringia”.
A rabbi writes a new Torah scroll for the Jewish state community of Thuringia.
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The new Torah is a gift from the Diocese of Erfurt and the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM).
At the event on Tuesday, EKM Bishop Friedrich Kramer and Catholic Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr as well as Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, State Commissioner for the Promotion of Jewish Life in Thuringia and the fight against anti-Semitism, are expected.
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