JUF News Express

Across Germany, the arrival of some 90,000 Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the 20 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain has brought both challenges and opportunities for Jewish life here, writes Ben Harris in a dispatch from "The Wandering Jew" at the JTA.

Leipzig has become not only a growing community -- like scores of others, its Jewish population exploded from nearly nothing in 1989 to well over 1,000 today -- but an Orthodox Jewish hub, funneling students from around the region to institutions of Jewish learning in Berlin and beyond. In this eastern German city of more than 500,000, it has had the effect of exporting Leipzig’s most active Jews to other communities throughout the country.