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Rabbi Josh Spinner
Vice President
Rykestrasse 5310405 Berlin
Tel: (49-30) 440-10160
Fax: (49-30) 440-10162
e-mail: jspinnerberlin@aol.com

Rabbi Binyamin Krauss
Vice President
The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation
Zeppelinallee 25
60325 Frankfurt
Tel: + 49 69 7137 460
Fax: + 49 69 7137 4629
e-mail: bkrauss@rslfound.com

BERLIN

RESTAURANTS - West Berlin

Paris Bar
Kantstrasse 152

Biscotti
Pestalozzistrasse 88

Hakuin
(Vegetarian)
Martin-Luther-Strasse 1

RESTAURANTS -East Berlin

Vau
(A Michelin star)
Jagerstrasse 54/55

Sale e Tabacchi
(Italian)
Kochstrasse 18

Opern Café
Unter den Linden 5
in the Opern Palais

Café Aedes
Hackeschen Hofe

Oren
(Israeli)
Oranienburger Strasse 28

Tadjiki Tea Salon
In the Palais am Festungsgraben behind the Neue Wache Monument on Unter den Linden

KOSHER RESTAURANTS

Arche Noah
(West Berlin)
Fasanenstrasse 79-80
(In the Jewish Community Center)

Beth Café
(East Berlin)
Tucholskystrasse 40

SUGGESTED SITES OF INTEREST - East Berlin

Brandenburg Gate
Pariser Platz/ Unter den Linden

Hamburger Bahnhof
Invaidenstrasse 50-51
(Contemporary art)

Reichstag
Platz der Republik

Galleries on Auguststrasse
Kunst-werke; Elgen Art and many others

Deutsches Historisches Museum
Unter den Linden 2

The Wall
Surviving bits can be seen on Niederkirchner Strasse, off Wilhemstrasse, near Topographie des Terrors

Museum Island
Several major museums Off Unter den Linden at Am Hupfergraben

Kunsthof
Several galleries in a courtyard Oranienburger Strasse

SUGGESTED SITES OF INTEREST West Berlin

Schloss Charlottenburg=
Luisenplatz and Spandauerdamm

Kulturforum
Matthaikirchplatz Several museums, including the New National Gallery, the Museum of Applied Art and the Picture Gallery

Brohan Museum
Schlossstrasse 1A Art Nouveau and Art Deco

Egyptian Museum
Schlossstrasse 70

Berggruen Collection
Next to the Brohan, opposite the Egyptian Museum

Gallery Eva Poll
Lutzowplatz 7 Contemporary German figurative art

Gallery Franke and Schulte
Mommsenstrasse 56 Contemporary art

Gallery Brunsberg
Kurfurstendamm 213

THEATERS - West Berlin

Deutsche Opera
Bismarckstrasse 34-37

Philharmonie
Matthaikirchstrasse 1 (Large symphony hall and smaller chamber music venue)

Theater des Westens
Kantstrasse 12 (Musical)s

THEATERS - East Berlin

Deutsch Staatsoper
Unter den Linden 5-7

Komische Opera
Behrenstrasse 55-57

Konzerthaus
Gendarmenmarkt (This is one of the most beautiful squares in Berlin.)

SHOPS - West Berlin

KaDeWe
(Berlin's largest department store, famous for its food hall.)Tauentzienstrasse 21-24.

Along the Kurfurstendamm and Tauentzienstrasse are many of the best shops in the city. There are many smaller boutiques on the cross streets. (Fasanenstrasse has the greatest concentration of designer boutiques

SHOPS - East Berlin

Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse are main shopping venues in the eastern part of the city. On Friedrichstrasse, you will find the Galleries Lafayette (at Franzosische Strasse) and Quartier 206 Department Store (Number 71); they are connected by an underground mall with a food court and several cafe

SUGGESTED SITES OF INTEREST (JEWISH) - West Berlin

Grunewald Train Station - Track 17

Mirror Wall
Hermann-Ehlers Platz Dedicated to the deported Jews of the Steglitz neighborhood

Bayerischer Platz
Eighty signs on lampposts reproducing the text of an anti-Jewish Nazi law

SUGGESTED SITES OF INTEREST (JEWISH) - East Berlin

Centrum Judaicum/Neue Synagogue
Oranienburger Strasse 28-30 Restored former synagogue, mainly a cultural center and museum devoted to the history of Berlin's Jews

Grosse Hanburger Strasse 26
Dedicated to the memory of the Berlin Jews who were deported from this site. Berlin's oldest Jewish cemetery, dating from 1671, is behind the memorial. The cemetery was destroyed by the Nazis; the only headstone re-erected after the War is that of Moses Mendelssohn.

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Strasse der Nationen 22, Oranienburg Located 12 miles outside of Berlin, and can be reached by S. Bahn trains.

National Holocaust Memorial
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe located opposite the site of the future American Embassy on Pariser Platz.

Topographie des Terrors
Stresemannstrasse 110 former Gestapo headquarters

Jewish Museum
Lindenstrasse 14

SYNAGOGUES - West Berlin

Joachmstaler Strasse 13 (Orthodox)

Pestalozziastrasse 14 (Traditional Berlin Liberal Service)

SYNAGOGUE - East Berlin

Adass Jisroel
Tucholskystrasse 40
(Orthodox)

Rykestrasse 53
(Traditional)

Oranienburger Strasse 29 in the Neue Synagogue (Egalitarian)

KOSHER STORES