At Harvard, it's often the small things that make it whether you belong or not: a luggage label, a tweed jacket, an invitation to the "right" student party. And even if Henry White wins all these insignia during the course of his studies at Harvard, he will never really belong to the elite core. He is Jewish, above all in the eyes of others.

André Glucksmann is one of France's leading philosophers. His criticism of communism brought him fame overnight in the mid-seventies. He has challenged the conscience of the Western world like few others. Now he has published his memoirs. The Jewish Museum Berlin and the Literaturhandlung cordially invite you to the book presentation after which the historian Dan Diner talks to André Glucksmann on Monday 26 March, 8 pm.

The documentary by David Bernet and Robert Ralston "Jew by Choice," which follows the conversion of three Germans to Judaism, will have its première at the Jewish Museum Berlin. The film will be shown on on 27 March 2007, 7 pm, at Old Building, 2nd level, Concert Hall. Admission is free.

How do children and young people experience one of today's most brutal conflicts? An answer to this question is provided by the pictures in the exhibition "Drawn by War" showing in the Eric F. Ross Gallery at the Jewish Museum Berlin. The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch distributed pens and paper to children and young people in refugee camps.

In the second part of his autobiography "Mein heiliges Land," the well-known actor and author Michael Degen paints a vivid and moving picture of Israel's founding years and postwar Germany. We cordially invite you to attend his reading at the Jewish Museum Berlin on Monday 19 March.

As part of the campaign week "Darfur: Crimes Against Humanity," the Jewish Museum in cooperation with Human Rights Watch cordially invites you to a musical highlight: Daniel Barenboim and the muscians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will play Franz Schubert's "Trout Quintet" on 20 March 2007, at 8 pm.

As part of the campaign week "Darfur: Crimes Against Humanity," the Jewish Museum in cooperation with Human Rights Watch cordially invites you to a musical highlight: Daniel Barenboim and the muscians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will play Franz Schubert's "Trout Quintet" on 20 March 2007, at 8 pm.

The brutal conflict in Darfur - Origins, circumstances, and solutions: These will be the focus of an international conference with distinguished speakers to which the Jewish Museum Berlin and Human Rights Watch cordially invite you on Friday 16 March.

The Jewish Museum Berlin in cooperation with Human Rights Watch opens the "Darfur: Crimes Against Humanity" campaign week under the patronage of Kofi Annan and with a speech by Joschka Fischer on Thursday 15 March. The museum and the human rights organization aim to shine the public spotlight onto one of today's most brutal conflicts.

When Tessa Uys fingers run up and down the ivories of the Blüthner grand piano at the Jewish Museum Berlin, it will be like meeting a trusted and familiar family member again. The instrument originally belonged to her mother Helga Bassel, who at the age of 28 fled the Nazis to South Africa in 1936. In her luggage was the grand piano she had bought in Berlin and on which her daughter was to learn.

The Jewish Museum Berlin is extending the special exhibition "Jewish - now. Photographs and Interviews" for almost 4 weeks until 25 February 2007. In various series of photographs, students intensively explored a theme with which they were unfamiliar at the outset: Jewish life in Germany today.