(JTA) Germany’s president helped inaugurate a new, multi-denominational synagogue center in the city of Potsdam. With a formal blessing delivered by Rabbi Avichai Apel, chair of Germany’s Orthodox ...

Situated sublimely on the banks of the Havel River, Potsdam is Germany at its most regal. Sparkling with Baroque palaces, manicured gardens, and splashing fountains from its proud Prussian past, the ...

Governor of Brandenburg and Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, top candidate for the state election Dietmar Woidke arrives at the party's election event after first exit polls announced in ...

(RNS) There’s a whiff of nostalgia around the restoration, with critics claiming that the aim is to restore some of the glory of the Prussian kingdom that dominated Imperial Germany. (RNS) The ...

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Sunday, gaining a narrow edge over a growing far-right party, ...

On Thursday, August 22, the newly rebuilt tower of the Garnisonkirche (Garrison Church) in Potsdam will be inaugurated. Among the speakers will be Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who took ...

It’s part of the new European Center for Jewish Learning at the University of Potsdam, which also houses two rabbinical seminaries. (JTA) — The city of Potsdam, Germany, has its first new synagogue ...

Potsdam, Germany: This former East German town is known for being home to a UNESCO-listed palace complex. Sanssouci was the summer home of Frederick the Great.

A state election is taking place in Brandenburg three weeks after a far-right party made gains in two other states in eastern Germany. BERLIN — A state election is taking place in Brandenburg on ...

(JTA) — BERLIN — Germany’s president helped inaugurate a new, multi-denominational synagogue center in the city of Potsdam last week. With a formal blessing delivered by Rabbi Avichai Apel, chair of ...