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through this. process. something i hear a lot is. coming even saint jean which has been i am a. jewish person you do so many. it's not something i really keep secret. just as i might just say i'm a jewish ghost makes many people say i'm jewish geminids others say i'm a german jesus. i thought it was wrong to say i'm a jew. them and if someone says hey you're a jew sounds kind of extreme when you can say it like that i don't like the way the term sounds so mostly i say i. need to.

you can say i do quite normally i'm a jew definitely. not a bad word i'm definitely a jew i'm a jew different i know i'm here. do you do you do you do you do for you must i don't act like a jew. anti semitic slayers. do you would you jews this country would these days but they could how many people in germany are actually personally acquainted with any young jews real people in the real life not just figures from histories that. must have been playing basketball for 7 years with the francophones as of now i'm a coach that. my copy is

a jewish club but it's also very open to normal jews. and sports they feel free when i'm playing sport i can just let go of everything that happens during the day going on 2nd i could imagine playing someplace really big in the n.b.a. and all guns cause an n.b.a. sphere. like could my favorite team go on the oklahoma city they might. give the edge to cause i'm in the 11th grade and high school. ever since i was really little i've tried to spend as much time as i can with children so no i babysit. done zygmunt i took when i'm babysitting my daily routine it's like this i go over to the child's house and when the parents leave i try to make sure the child feels secure and safe even though their parents are going out walking off it

what windows can get out of if the child was to draw something that i draw with the child but at the same time i try to teach them something i might say hey you cut it this really nicely but so did i as well that way the child learns that she's not always the best one that we've both made a good showing of it's just that on mine. cause but you know barack detect from berlin right between the rainbow shops and fetish stores. living here in this environment i have to say to make coming out as a clear person pretty easy. to cut right now i'm still in school it's gonna fly like meeting up with my friends and i write a lot i really like writing i'm very political and every day i'm part of the feminist reading group that meets every 2 weeks.

i took music costas when i was at the shanghai school. but i'm more into rap music and. with rap you can really let it all hang out he's almost you know. that's something i'm good at. my job just music because some people have a hard time feeling the things with music but with me i want to climb that mountain and right to the top vincit acting much as i should that's how it is. i was the only jew in my class actually the only one in the whole grade they'd say hitler this is hitler bad and what's it like being a jew this is you would say we're going to gas you're going to forgotten this.

kind they sent around dickheads and now what south korea does where they made fun of gassing jews. they praised. the companies that i know and then you hear this one sentence this one little joke and you want to jump out of your skin because for me the joke isn't little. just cause a few i cook a lot and i like trying new things for she know include all kinds of dishes from all different cuisines. cooking is totally relaxing for me to school i basically started because my father always cooked the same thing i want to start 1st day she learned to cook with it on tomato sauce with chicken tomatoes also them and then at some point i was like ok this has to change i'm taking over. as

a nation. every jew eats the same way although there are fixed the dietary laws he got home cost route that's what it's called kosher food to do we're not allowed to mix meat with milk for example is not at all not even on the same place i'm trying to ask. spinny it's nice to not 100 percent religious his point was if i make myself a chicken breast i might slip some cheese on top he said let it melt just the same . and translates imposing to me because it's the law i can understand the best is that in judaism it's forbidden to eat insects all the frito vegetables you eat you have to check them 1st is everything clean that's all they really know insects and i can totally understand that i don't want to eat bugs. just. here in austin a book that means i can't just go out on a coffee but i'll drink coffee in a cafe for example sprite things like that some people would say this restricts

mine and you know you don't have to be religious to be jewish i'm jewish because my mother is jewish and because my father is jewish that's all. because my religion teacher is probably crying somewhere right now because i don't remember everything i learned in all those years i got to find out about holidays and so on i tunes of god stupendous kindness no yacht steak no way i can somehow be more jewish than. no he was born i live in munich and i was also born here i'm very active in the jewish community i work with young people and i also work part time in an israeli restaurant my kind of my enjoys waitress they were because like i meet so many different kinds of people people come and most of them are trying israeli cuisine for the 1st time house tamales 3 israeli cuisine is super diverse and then they

want to know what is kosher wine of what is kosher friend who is the restaurant. as a student to judaism plays a big role in my life it's my roots it's always with me it's something i carry within myself and i wear a star of david in the history of my family it's always there with me really your religion isn't such a big part of it because i just didn't grow up religious books been from ash for me the special thing about judaism is that it's both a cultural and a religious affiliation people deal with this in very different ways some people feel they belong only in one group or some of the other only religious or whatever for me it's both bibles. in the. faith usually room kinds of human religious and you know suits know

a lot more about the whole thing than we do talk on them for example i've never read the torah and all the other things you do if you're a religious jew like you so you can mark. my real hobby i would say is ballet. i do ballet i started pretty recently but i like it very much and i love swimming and that's great here with the lake. the and then funding for meaning we have a friend of the family who is also jewish happens and when he visits us we celebrate chabad and things like that and like candles but we try to do it more often but it doesn't always happen and why because part of our family is christian we also celebrate easter and christmas by not really big celebrations but well kind of. in the hunter shooting to see.

this is the also dogs a number this is the orthodox synagogue they say they're the central orthodox synagogue and for of women there he says it's really big and very old it's beautiful very high ceilings lots of decorative elements just magnificent up 1st and 2nd are walls that's where i grew up. this is now off and then it's. around i know this is the place where i can really be my worries at the door into soho to judaism the prayer is in hebrew and that really is like entering another world you mean you took you on something like meditation perhaps and because for example as theoretically celebrated by all jews throughout the world i feel the strong connection. and i got some bad ones there's

this powerful feeling of togetherness because everyone is on well in theory says the same prayer in the same language in hebrew we have to shouted on to say that feeling is beyond words on as this is only those. 2. i would especially be true of us the song to me the best feeling of the whole week is on saturday on shabbes i know my phone is off all my devices are off i can't watch netflix or any other series so i can really focus on the important things in life. so when i spend time with my family i spend time with my friends and my neighbors and i don't have to think about schools from so i don't have to think about any problems i'm this really a sense of freedom i had religion might restore it to me but by doing so it gives me the freedom to clear my mind. 'd with breath i feel

how it touches my soul which really touches my heart when we sing. c it for me. i wouldn't trade this moment for anything in the world. i'm in 12th grade at the routes given nauseum complete my high school diploma next year from just the truth my focus is science chemistry biology and math but i'm also interested in ancient languages like greek and latin my oral exam subject is history yeah those are my favorite subjects. once they threw money at me they said because you like money so much marks again you get on i understood they thought i like money because i'm jewish and i said please never ever do that again.

feel you can to he and his image and become how many young people have experienced anti semitism don't want to go on camera because they don't want to be targeted again so to look for her book anti semitism in schools in germany the frankfurt besar she ologist really a balanced and collected some examples. liana heard a classmate saying the holocaust never happened she intervened and asked him what he was saying by say the boy replied you should have been gassed along with them at the moment for gazans on. libya the teacher said to mark if all jews are like you then i can see where hitler was coming from. ever he was in the 8th or 9th grade when his classmates told him to go to the gas chambers like his relatives and gaskin.

it's been fun to come most fun i'm 20 years old and i'm from frankfurt i'm about to start school in berlin as a film student. of the noise when i was 13 years old it was i started going to a new school i didn't know at the time that there might be anything wrong with saying that i was jewish or that it could be a problem in any way on but i quickly noticed that my classmates thought it was funny to draw swastikas harken courts in the air how to molyneux die and as soon as the word gas came up the whole class turned and looked at me as the cia has cost over. i'm flying mask on in the beginning it wasn't hurtful at all because i didn't understand it was god i didn't know that this was anti semitism and that it was actively directed against me as a jewish to this. is going i'm just that's

a huge event it's 5 lovers that i got around school that i was jewish yeah i think i was actually the only jew at the school governesses yes i can say i was bullied for being jewish but in the 7th grade and because my german was a little worse than it is you know because not everyone has a birthmark like mine now and in the 7th grade that definitely makes a difference often for us also as if you the 3 factors came together you would you know my birth mark the course and russian. helped actually is this is a cumulative flanker that builds up with all those little things all those jokes on invented some point you've had it out of path and it goes bam-bam month. you feel. you don't know what to do with yourself and that's a big problem on this isn't course problem because it makes things develop that you don't even want to imagine foster moved far and time or not now few months ago

there was a situation that school where you go out together with 2 boys called me a jew as an insult you didn't bloody tap as you took the term and used it in a negative way she said a lot of bad when it is about one and one cannot own and i was totally overwhelmed and upset when it happened manfred says complex for you feel completely alienated as much you don't want to be who you are you wish you'd never been born it's all this is that that's the terrible thing about racism anti-semitism whatever that it makes you dislike yourself zigzagged. as it is presume it's been born i grew up without a religious upbringing but we've always had. connection to the cynical with. that. he kept i just started to really engage with it step by step down but also it was a process and i gradually integrated more and more things into my everyday life so

my school had to get used to the fact that i wasn't going to go to school on 2 ish holidays my friends had to get used to the fact that i can't go out partying with them on saturday it wasn't an obvious choice for everyone from the stone stand. up to him after i came out as jewish it made the rounds in the school relatively quickly against and do you want pretty soon everyone knew i was jewish. father sean preston v i was presented a bit like a museum piece can stink but people accepted it. delighted when i transferred to another school and almost when my own class knew that i was jewish it's a huge been. but the other classes didn't not. imposible time off in the school courtyard and i'd often hear expressions like don't act like a judicial thing you don't be a chew one for and sometimes i'd go over for friends of mine for god and say that's

not cool don't do that roman is jewish almost as much as that and there was this look of shock won't we have jews here in school. 71 were felt uncomfortable yes the word was used every day don't appear to you or don't act like a jew on. your dog particularly better because i saw how the people who constantly said things like that i started to pay attention to what they were saying and as the mother when it slips out they apologized for this because when it's in someone's vocabulary it's hard to stop all of one's is the swears the right answers their. peoples for to try to master it isn't that i used to see it as a disadvantage to grow up in a small jewish community and then and there being as if i'm one of the few actual jews in essen the huge figure mind is the jewish community here is very very small a 1000 people to my i would say that less than 10 percent of all people who live in

essen have ever actually met a jew. and you can get at. 2 it chaps are supposed to yes i studied acting and i work a lot with jewish communities all over germany but i was with youth groups and zones in general i would describe myself as an actor. yes one of the answers now at the moment as i see having grown up in essen is a real advantage in cologne or berlin maybe i wouldn't stand out as much as i do here in essence the tour. gives. a little. in fact i'd be happy if people who live in essen watched this program because s n was actually one of the centers of jewish life in germany before world war 2. had the 3rd largest synagogue in germany until 938.

as this one was shaped by its jewish community for the whole of the 2nd world war that's not the case now and it's a shame but it doesn't mean it won't change in the future. when you do it on some you go how i'm jewish and the keep is part of me i wear it at home all the time i wear to synagogue why can't i wear to school i remember that day when i came to school wearing a kippah. orleans and the vice principal came up to me and said sam well i think it's great what you're doing but you know the school rules say no head coverings are allowed and i was like yeah but what about the headscarf you know this and she said yes well the headscarf is different you don't have to wear keep up because i so i said it's actually very important to me that jewish

life is also represented at the school you just leave as we have jewish students and the keeper is important to me and it's the jewish equivalent to the muslim headscarf and i'm going to wear it now and so to and then the next day she came up to me and apologized and said how embarrassed she was and i just thought it was a funny moment you to science i have had nothing but good experiences to go home and i was elected student representative with a cute pastor give me a key problem. thank you. for. the good to. see. be a man who is says i avoid a lot of conflict situations because i'm jewish i don't look at you i don't wear a kippa except at weddings and i don't wear a star of david to try to get a big. guy going to for talk to my been mischa barton the faun

once i was riding the train and i had my star of david on gun and an older man sat down across from me and saw it he got up immediately and sat somewhere else and kept looking at me very angrily from the bizarreness. because actually you say this more with me as he's been asked me what do you have to do 1st. next on the right hand on the audience human rights head. this one you don't want and so. i try to never hired my jewishness and i wear my star of david necklace opening and

has a transformer on the wall that they all situations where my mother asks me not to say i know that there have been problems where you're going could you please try not to attract attention in sight it's not the 1st thing i say is enough hello i'm jewish i kind of sit back and see what the situation is and yes unfortunately there have been times where i've put my star of david on the my t. shirt you know. i find it kind of sad you should actually be able to expect that as a chill you can live just like any other german does here in germany. we always have to have the police in front of the school i think it's not terrible but more a shame that i did what our sports hall isn't in the school building and when we walk to the gym we always have to wait until the security and police are there. is a police have to walk us to the gym.

in fribourg i want my keep openly for a year that is without covering it up with a cap even when i was doing sports. actually i'm tired i didn't even notice how the attacker followed me into the locker room and while i was busy doing something at my locker he grabbed me from behind and ripped off my keeper then he shouted this doesn't belong here you're dirty jew and so on. and he tried to tear up the keeper it didn't work so he spat on it and threw it in the trash free penny said free palestine and spat on the ground and then he came up to me very close and threatened to beat me up for there were other people in the locker room the whole time i turned to the other people in the row and we made eye contact and nobody said anything kind of us they didn't move an inch and that's what hurt the most big time stamp of my mother and as a true plus even i myself was once in

a situation where i was put down and insulted in 6 jewish which because i also have red hair or something and my essence would hurt me the most was not the insult but that the other 23 people just sat there and didn't say a word unkind and what does act. should move in i would like people to stand up and show some courage not just when it comes to people of the jewish faith but for people of all say. you shouldn't hide behind someone else or hide behind the crowd and say let the others do something so you should try to act as. the final part of a reporter asked me if the attacker was ethnically german yes i said i didn't want to talk about the nationality of the perpetrator why was i being asked to say yes it was imported anti semitism no it wasn't there's no such thing as imported

anti-semitism anti semitism has never disappeared from history she's jews have been hated since the beginning of time most jewish holidays follow this pattern someone tried to kill us it didn't work but see. you just might have an issue and every time i'm asked about muslim at the summit to solve i say sorry but that's just an excuse to deflect responsibility to the. block i see that nora tells the story of her brother in which the perpetrators none of him had an immigrant background all got away scot free and he and his 3 jewish friends were severely bullied so badly that they had to be picked up from school and all of them changed schools i think except for one or 2 you know that and the fact that the kids who were doing the bullying didn't get kicked out of school with they just weren't any serious consequences kind of stuff the consequence.

of unified asked that i definitely think that the 1st reaction of all teachers and professional should be to educate you should stop it 100 percent and explain to the students why it's wrong because that's the biggest problem i think i just i don't know why it's wrong if this is just a joke to them by the diseases and that's. because if you haven't i think it would be a big mistake if the teachers just cut the person off or send them out to. the money and i think punishment it's not very productive and the end punishment just makes the hatred grow it creates even more negative associations you know. doesn't help people deal with the problem it just makes people feel strengthened in their conviction because especially at our age everyone wants to rebel we want to

test. it comes not seen v i can't understand how the teachers can think there's no anti semitism at our school and it's not a problem we don't need to talk about it. well we visited a concentration camp on the school hike so we've shown what the consequences of anti semitism are so they know about it on the sets. in the. vapor from an east into a jewish students face and said to remind you. of the. loss of the teacher goes really angry to does that but she said you know what i don't want people like you in my closet either you behave yourself and cut it out with these actually semitic slows the room the whole. seriously just leave the room

just leave it on and then the student was like i was just kidding. but then everybody else was like you don't joke around with something like that that's gross . most of all and what my teacher did was completely right and i wish i still had classes with her because i really felt comfortable with her through the snow. over the years i've run into a lot of my classmates again by chance i have more self-confidence and i talked to almost everyone about it and we discussed the issues after these direct conversations we shook hands they also apologized for what they said or did that's why i think education and direct discourse is definitely the right way to approach this should.

by anna during a discussion about israel is 6 foot tall boy sat next to each other and yelled at her that israelis do exactly the same thing to palestinians that the nazis did to the jews. and. once i was at a party and i was talking about how i go to a jewish school and i also said i'm jewish and so i was standing there with my girlfriend and a young guy and we were just talking about this stuff. and the 1st thing he said after i said i was jewish and he was all worked up was so what's your stand on israel. what about israeli politics why isn't like me. like i'm suddenly the israeli foreign minister i have to justify myself right away

why are we doing this unless this is this is this you florida boy it means i'm like has the prize in that way. i have nothing to do with the state of israel i've never been there i cannot vote there i have no responsibility for the actions carried out there have been and i don't agree with everything they do so it's a shame that everything gets lumped together you know as a man of his who have also just assuming that i know everything about israel and about israeli politics it's pretty ridiculous you know. i think what happens in today's society is there's yes people are critical of israel that's ok it's ok to say that it's not anti-semitic but what's behind this criticism of israel is often a really hateful kind of anti-semitism that's most he said. that israel is demonized even conflated with the acts of the holocaust equated with the nazis

they're not and that there is this term the israeli or the palestinian holocaust and so holocaust setting them equivalent if you can't let a nice the holocaust like that. mattering his right and there was someone once we even called me a child i can assure you i've never killed anyone you have never killed a child. you think it's more anti-semitism is not just about wearing a kippah in public and having it ripped off and being spat on. it was tough to mention on tough but i think it depends on who you encounter for me at school i always had to explain myself and i always got these quite hopeful looks. oh. you're the 1st jewish person i've ever met.

there are always people also in the 12th grade who treat you with kid gloves when in marshawn they are really cautious and you can tell they're watching what they say. as if they think they might accidentally hurt your feelings. and. just money and a certain kind of goodness shouldn't be this fair of interacting we're not some exotic species that threatened with extinction i'm a completely normal human being if there's anything you're interested in just tell us. it's cool i'll see the same way i would if i were talking about soccer even so i like to play soccer when someone asks me what my favorite team is and i know that fans of 860 munich i know they won't like it when i say my favorite team is by and i sometimes think to myself in that situation be careful but i still talk to them normally and one of the puzzle on our eyes for she often but i can also understand that when there is no active jewish life going on around them but just memorials to

destroyed synagogues and i think 3 commemorative events a year the secular holocaust memorial day the jewish holocaust memorial day and november 9th that's all people know about being jewish so i get that there's this feeling oh this is something different something unfamiliar with us as noise sources you know. just humvee and infant day you must have been pajama history costs we watched the film the boy in the striped pajamas and the teacher came over to me in front of the home class and then she knelt down beside me on her and said yeah if it's too hard for you to watch this you can go outside and i found bats. oh i know that she meant well just maybe but it was this kind of pity and i find pity and i don't like as

a tool this might be astonished. women i suppose soon too whenever you say something about judaism and people always think right away if the show on the holocaust and not of the culture itself and i think that's why people somehow get so uptight. the oftentimes often we fall into this victim relvar you often because it was something very terrible that happened in history right. i don't want to be used to the holocaust was that so maybe i am not the holocaust the holocaust. interest of course we can't forget what happened not at all i know on the other hand we aren't victims anymore and we're not the ones who experienced their skin those were normal people who should have a normal place in everyday life shouldn't have

a special status we should just be normal yeah so yes that's what i wanted to say but i didn't manage to put it so well. when between spying. and i've been helping out for 2 and a half years in the jewish community in munich tonnages i thought the great thing is that when i go there it feels like family i feel very very appreciated that. there's a good friend. i respect i miss as a shock so this scene it's very empowering to know that you have a huge community behind you that's really there for you at the end of the day august i come from in a bad marriage or something bad has just happened i go there and somehow

a feeling of my hose a tip it just kind of envelops me and there's an extremely strong sense of solidarity that there's good next few months here is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to be afraid of by you can talk about anything will money because this is a place where you can be open and from where we've become a small family and i live. under the gun feeling something a lot of us take part in that year of asian vision from the revision takes place once a year each time in a different city on the instruct. the jury visioned. the tour of asia nice a singing and dancing competition like e.s.c. figure efficient song contest with jewish communities this is video and tree because the nuvi you forgot yeah we made a music video. live . there most of it is huge each jewish community had to choose

a video introducing their community and city and a theme. is good it's about life cycles that is cycles in jewish life. circumcision when you turn 13 and theoretically you're an adult and so basically everything that happens in a jewish life. and then you go ahead we always rehearse from all the way 3 days and then you perform all. i. says it's everything it's joy it's everything all at once when you stand there and there are 5000 people watching you and you think oh god. that is

a. monk and you're already standing there with this microphone so you think to yourself in the building ok i have to finish this this and then the coolest thing is when people celebrate what you're doing and then you just can't stop and you just want to stay on stage you know blood and. all the like but it was. not about winning it's more about seeing friends again point of view does the. church. month look it's a meeting place where you can really see you're jewish you don't have to be afraid you don't have to hide that you can be open and. really feel comfortable there always who. am i was. born close to the idea is to embody the belief that we're just like anybody else we're not salience or anything. that's what i'd wish for is that nobody looks

at you funny. there's definitely a new generation of hold on and you're going where a young generation involved in our community mind. we have a lot to say and we want people to listen and. if you know me going i wish would be to be more open to people and now the circle of friends is known to have these very it doesn't matter what religion you simply among friends went among people is and we grew up here it's our home too and we have to actively show us because we don't all at the same other people come to see that way jewish we don't have we are jewish written on our foreheads. when i think of one family is my only wish for the future is to be able to be normal as a jew. i wish people didn't stare at girls with headscarves or boys with kid boxes or whatever everyone should live like they want you know sort of live you know her

. into the future what i would like to see is the other jewish life being real jewish life to which it's all about what really happens what makes people tick . while it's in place our t.v. soonish sleep at the end of the day we do have an active jewish life here in germany is this you for many people in mainstream society jews are simply a french group that always gets demeaning view and i think it's simply wrong to reduce that to just that would offer a beauty of view that. is needed. it's in our hands what we do with it is up to us and we can turn things around and show people it's been hey i'm jewish but i'm also a student and and i travel. and i cook and being jewish is one of the elements that makes me who i am. this is all that's our challenge i know it's

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