Jewish Berlin Blogsphere, Dec 8, 2008

Letters from Berlin about Chabad and the Meat Mafia, in the last paragraph: "It is becoming increasingly difficult to think of myself as Jewish in religious sense. Like a lot of modern secular people, it is difficult to assess what is keeping me from admitting to atheism. Part of it must be the pride I take in Jewish accomplishments. But a careful reading-between-the-lines of the Jewish Museum in Berlin proves one thing unequivically: Jews have contributed a lot to the world since Enlightenment, but none of them were Orthodox. "

Jewish Berlin Blogsphere, 24 Nov 2008

Juna writes in "Somehow Jewish" about the effort to teach Jewish migrants from the former Soviet Union the German language, as well as their own religion, at the same time. She brings this interesting page from a Cornelsen language book:

(source: http://www.masorti.de/unterricht_image.html)