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Author: JG Michelsberg
On 16 April 2021 at 1900h CEST our first virtual event in the Russian-language series Проект Перспектива will be taking place on ZOOM:
Feel free to contact us to get the access details!
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We Are Now on Facebook!
At https://www.facebook.com/JGMichelsberg/ you will find our new Facebook page.
Especially for our Russian-speaking members and friends we will offer a platform for exchange of ideas and networking.
We are looking forward to seeing you over there!
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Chag Pessach Sameach
We wish a happy and blessed Passover 5781 to all our members and friends!
Dear Students, Azubis, Headmasters and Teachers,
since due to the ongoing pandemic still no public events may take place, including the remembrance day on 27 January 2021 regarding the Liberation of Auschwitz, we are inviting you all to a very special joint project:
On 20 February 2021 our Honorary Member Leon Schwarzbaum will celebrate his 100th birthday.
He not only is one of the last living survivors of the Shoah, but also of the Concentration Camp Auschwitz which has been liberated on 27 January 1945 by the Red Army.
On the occasion of his birthday, an oral history interview will take place, which will be lead by the famous and Oscar-winning director Volker Schlöndorff, who has been born in Wiesbaden.
Leon Schwarzbaum cordially invites you all to ask him questions about his experiences in Auschwitz and the Shoah in general, which will become part of this interview.
We are looking forward to your messages that you can gladly send either as written submission or in the form of short videos to kontakt@jg-michelsberg.com.
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Happy New Year 2021!
Dear members, dear friends, with this little Hanukkah song, sung by two of our youngest members, we wish all a Happy New Year 2021. May good luck and good fortune always be with you!
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The Story of Our Hanukkiah
The Hanukkah-Candelabrum which we intended to kindle on the last day of Hanukkah in front of the Hessischer Landtag (Hessian State Parliament) has been built by the Jewish, Muslim and Christian metal-work apprentices of the Wiesbadener Jugendwerkstatt (Youth Workshop of the City of Wiesbaden).
תודה רבה (Todah Rabah, Thank you very much) from all members of the congregation!
Sponsors of the candles would have been members of the Hessian government, the Christian and Muslim Communities and the Jugendwerkstatt.
Unfortunately we had to call off the event due to the hard lockdown that began on 16 December 2020. Even though we had a special permit by the City of Wiesbaden, we have decided to cancel for the safety of everybody involved.
Nonetheless we are hoping very much that the candles of our Hanukkiah will be kindled as a sign of the solidarity of these three world religions every year in front of the Hessische Landtag in Wiesbaden during Hanukkah, beginning in 2021.
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Photo Gallery 2020
The year 2020 C.E. was full of huge challenges for all of us and we are still fighting the biggest one, COVID-19.
Therefore below a small photo gallery of some of the more positive moments of the first (common era) year of our congregation.
Update 17 December: Due to the radically worsening situation in Wiesbaden, we will not erect a Hanukkiah today.
Update 16 December: Due to the current situation, the event below has been cancelled. The Hanukkiah will be erected and kindled without any further celebrations.
We cordially invite you to our Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah 2020 on Thursday, 17 December 2020 from 1800h at the
Schlossplatz in Wiesbaden between Hessischer Landtag (State Parliament Building) and Rathaus (Town Hall)
to collectively light the Hanukkiah together with guests of honor from the fields of politics and culture, with a small supporting program and our Rabbi Dr Walter Rothschild.
We kindly ask for a – gladly informal – message if you intend to participate.
We also kindly request that all guests please wear a face mask during the whole event and adhere to social distancing rules!
If you have been at the Memorial Site on Michelsberg in Wiesbaden on 10 Nov 2020, then you have been able to see half a Star of David, formed by empty shoes.
On 10 Nov 2020 at 0530h – the point in time when the Synagogue on the Michelsberg has been ablaze 82 years ago – we held a vigil to remember the destruction of the Reform Synagogue at the memorial site and to also remember all the Jews that have been murdered during the Shoah in a wreath ceremony.
We stood between the empty shoes to show that the murdered Jewish citizens are no longer here but that they are living on in our hearts, stand on our side in our thoughts and that the manifold Jewish life in Germany has been resurrected. Progressive Judaism is visible again in Wiesbaden.
Our message to the City of Wiesbaden is this: We, the progressive Jews of this city, are back!
We all must not forget the past, but we may not only look back into the sorrowful past but also have to direct our gaze into the future!
Until 09 Nov 1938 at this place, the Reform Synagogue of Wiesbaden had been located, which had been built by the Progressive Jews of this city and was dedicated on 13 Aug 1869. The members of this congregation worked towards adapting the historic religious rituals and rules to the present time and to liberalize and democratize all aspects of Jewish life.
The former Rabbi of this community, Abraham Geiger, was one of the founders of Progressive Judaism as we know it around the world today.