Monday, November 9, 2009 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. World leaders will join the crowds as part of Monday's celebrations. The Wall's original path next to the Brandenburg Gate has 1,000 giant painted dominoes have been set up that will be toppled on Monday evening in the presence of visiting leaders from Britain, France and Russia, in a symbolic re-enactment of the day the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago.

The Jewish Museum Berlin will be back "on.tour" from 19 January 2009. The Tour 2009 will begin at a school in Berlin's district of Neukolln and continue on to three further schools in Berlin. Guides with both thematic and didactic training will be aboard the touring bus with a mobile exhibition and a workshop in their luggage, visiting 46 secondary schools in nine federal states.

Barack Obama's Berlin Speach at the Victory Column started at 1PM Eastern Standard Time. Here are the highlights of Obama's Berlin Speach that gathered an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 visitors.

"Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra" Present "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - Jews in Jazz"There are but a few who don't know the song "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," but not many are aware of the significant role Jewish musicians and composers played in the emergence of jazz – not only in America, but also in Germany and the former Soviet Union.

The exhibition "typical! Clichés of Jews and Others" which opens on 19 March takes visitors on a journey into the world of over-simplified images and notions. It shows works of art, junk, photos, and film clips and raises the question of how popcult objects, bric-a-brac, and historical collectors' pieces spread stereotypical messages.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier held a bilateral meeting in Berlin on Tuesday morning, which Steinmeier said was "a positive signal" to Chinese-German relations.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier are scheduled to meet in Berlin Tuesday, Chinese diplomats said in Berlin Monday.

There will be no time for boredom during the winter vacation at the Jewish Museum Berlin! Visitors great and small will learn more about Jewish festivals, religious rituals and the Hebrew alphabet on the family tour "Jewish Life, Jewish Traditions."

May 2008 is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel – marking a major event not only for history, but also for the media. The young state has been accompanied by photographers and filmmakers from the very hour of its birth, who left their mark on the perceptions of people all over the world.

The festive Hanukkah Market at the Jewish Museum Berlin will be opened with words of welcome by Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, mayor of Berlin, on Sunday 2 December 2007 at 2 pm - this year for the first time in the new Glass Courtyard designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind.

The actress Joanne Gläsel, known for her role as Superintendent Eva Klaussner in the German television series "Der Ermittler" (nominated for the Bambi Award in 2002), and the director Soogi Kang were inspired by Charlotte Salomon's life and her colorful, expressive gouaches to produce a theatrical performance which will have its première at the Jewish Museum Berlin on Saturday 1 September.