At a Conference of European Rabbis summit, war and refugees are once more on the agenda
Photo: Eli Itkin
Like many European cities caught in the wave of pro-Kiev sentiment, Munich’s municipal buildings, including the theater and local museum, fly Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag.
Like most media outlets across the West, Munich’s main newspaper — the Süddeutsche Zeitung — prints updates on the Donbas on the front page.
At the Grand Westin Hotel, which played host to the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) convention that took place in the city last week, Dmytro — who’d worked in the hospitality industry in Kiev — managed the front desk in fluent English and talked of building a new life.
This city — the cradle of Nazism — tells a German and wider European story: war, refugees, and geopolitics are creating fresh wounds, in a continent where the scar tissue of the last conflagration is barely healed.
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