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Animals that are made out of recycled material are on display at the interactive exhibit about the story of Noah's Ark, at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 24, 2021, 12:54 pm
Jewish Museum in Berlin opens kids’ exhibit about Noah’s Ark
Visitors to ANOHA Children’s World can build little arks to float on a ‘deluge simulator’ or help rescue 150 animals made of recycled materials
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Hetty Berg comes to her new post in Berlin after spending 30 years as a manager and curator at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. (Yves Sucksdorff/Jewish Museum Berlin/ via JTA)
September 2, 2020, 9:24 pm
New Berlin Jewish museum head says she’s focused on life in Germany, not Israel
With a predecessor forced to resign for a tweet seen as supporting BDS, Hetty Berg shifts gears, playing up a shared history to bring Jews and non-Jews to the newly reopened museum
By Joe Baur
Hetty Berg has been appointed as the new director of the Berlin Jewish Museum (Berlin Jewish Museum)
November 28, 2019, 5:53 pm
Scandal-plagued Berlin Jewish Museum hires new director
Peter Schafer stepped down last June over hosting of anti-Zionist scholar and inviting an Iranian delegation to discuss a possible exhibit on Iranian Jews
By Toby Axelrod
Trees in the northern Negev, December 12, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)
July 12, 2019, 5:05 pm
Munich’s Jewish Museum calls Negev forests ‘settlement policy,’ sparking outcry
State-run institution uses loaded term to describe afforestation near Beersheba; employee protests the use of ‘anti-Semitic imagery’; JNF Germany: Display ‘painful, intolerable’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Jewish Museum Berlin. (Hufton Crow)
June 20, 2019, 1:45 am
How the Berlin Jewish Museum became a political lightning rod
The resignation of its director, after a tweet that seemed to support the anti-Israel BDS movement, has many questioning role of institution in its community
By Toby Axelrod
In this file photo taken on August 21, 2014, then-Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin Peter Schaefer poses outside the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/AFP) )
June 15, 2019, 11:38 pm
German Jewish group hails museum head’s resignation over tweet to pro-BDS story
Germany’s Central Council of Jews says Peter Schaefer stepping down will ‘prevent further damage to the institution’
By Agencies
In this file photo taken on August 21, 2014, then-Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin Peter Schaefer poses outside the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/AFP) )
June 14, 2019, 9:46 pm
Director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum quits after tweet linked to pro-BDS story
Head of German Jewish community says institution seems ‘out of control’; museum says it was just highlighting an issue
By Agencies
The Berlin Jewish Museum was under fire in 2019 for retweeting a link to a pro-BDS article. (Prisma by Dukas/Universal Images Group/ Getty Imagesvia JTA)
June 12, 2019, 6:37 am
Berlin Jewish Museum takes heat for tweeting link to pro-BDS story
German Jewish community head says institution seems ‘out of control’; museum says it was just highlighting an issue
By Toby Axelrod
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