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There are countless Jewish artists who impressed, mesmerized, inspired and entertained the world, including superstars like Leonard Cohen or Barbra Streisand. Some Jewish musicians and entertainers left big footprints on this planet before they passed away, others are still working on theirs.

In Berlin, people squeeze into those 'U-Bahn' trains to get from 'A' to 'B' in the morning. Once the day is over, they go back to 'A'. And 'A' is usually the…

Forty years ago, a big idea was implemented, when Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick founded Incognito. Since, the band has delivered truckloads of the most brilliant…

Without Ferdinand Piëch, the German auto industry would look different today. That is how much influence the engineer had. Ferdinand Porsche's grandson shaped Volkswagen and other brands for decades. Piëch died on Sunday.

In her early films she was the little girl from Vienna, where she was born into a family of actors. Even her great-grandfather was in the ‘business’. What she…

Smadar Pery fights antisemitic streets vendors, terrorists and ignorance by spreading the reality about Israel online, and by talking to people on the streets…

In 1999, Merkel was not Kohl's 'little girl' anymore. She even broke with him. As the CDU's secretary general, she criticized her former mentor in an opinion piece in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' daily, for refusing to name donors, when a rather big party donation scandal erupted. It did not take long until Merkel became the CDU's chairlady.

It was in 1969 when Walter Scheel made history. Obviously, it took him some effort to convince his party to change horses in 1969. He wanted the FDP to join the…

Today, there are less than 20 ice cream trucks in Berlin. The Italian expat drives one of them. This city may not be as beautiful as the island of Ischia, but…

Anton Tal reinvents Berlin by creating 'wormhole' and 'tiny planet' pictures. Those are abstract photo compositions he achieves by first shooting truckloads of photos with his DSLR camera. In a more complicated second step called tweaking, he rebuilds the city.