People sometimes ask why I work so often for jewish institutions and the correct answer – I make a living working for paying customers – seems to leave them vaguely dissatisfied ( I work for shoa.de for free, but that’s not a jewish site). So these people might  be glad to hear see their respective bias confirmed when they hear that this time I did something mostly “for the cause”.

The Berlin non-profit “Freunde der Habimah” (“Friends of the Habima“) is hosting a series of events in April 2008 to celebrate – and reflect upon – the 60 anniversary of the state of Israel. I did the programming work on the website “Begegnungen – 60 Jahre Israel in Berlin” (in german), the graphics design was done by friends and long-time partners kakoii.de.

Admittedly I myself am more interested in the politics than in the culture – I’m looking forward to the discussion panel that will include, among other participants, journalist Hermann L. Gremliza, Editor of the Konkret Magazine – it is possibly ironic and in any case typical that one of the most pronounced critics of german nationalism is one of the few people who have actually mastered the german language. German is not exactly a poetic language and fit for heroics only if you like wagnerian pathos, but is quite suitable for his kind of sharp-tongued political commentary. So apart from the substance of the discussion I guess this will be also fun to listen to.