Germany’s biggest Jewish complex since the Holocaust opened

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – The biggest educational and cultural complex belonging to Jewish community since the Holocaust was opened in Berlin, Germany.

It was opened by Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal and head of the local Chabad community.

“We’re changing the narrative about Jews in Germany,” Teichtal told The Associated Press earlier this week.

The Pears Jewish Campus, in the German capital’s Wilmersdorf neighborhood, officially opens on Sunday.

In addition to the schools, the campus also will feature a movie theater and a music studio, a library, a kosher deli and a huge indoor basketball court and gym that can be turned into a lecture hall for up to 600 people or a reception hall for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

There’s a kitchen for the school cafeteria and another huge one to cater receptions, which includes a bakery to make pastries or to prepare challah for Shabbat.