Munich synagogues

Does anybody go to a Synagogue in Munich? I know there are about 5 here and I need to start going again but don't know which one to choose. I know I could just go to each one one time and make my pick then but I get quite intimidated, would not be nice if I rocked up to an orthodox synagogue with my level of Jewishness! The more progressive/liberal the better where they won't mind too much if my Hebrew is a little (very) rusty. Any good schul-goers here?

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there is a synagogue round the corner from me in Reichenbachstrasse but i cant recommend it. I'm not jewish but i'm telling you saturday morning around there is all hats and black clothing so I suppose it is a little on the orthodox side.

I know the one on Reichenbachstr, I went there one saturday morning and just kept on walking. Scary stuff. I've had a couple of pm's with suggestions so will take those and hopefully find an unscary synagogue that welcomes pretty lousy jews like me.

No more chicken cordon bleur though

Liberale jüdische Gemeinde München* Liberal Jewish Community Munich* Beth Shalom
Tel. 0 89/89 80 93 73

Contact these guys.. the congregation is young, reform and mostly english speaking.. threw some Purim .. it was great because its young and chill.. Cant for the life of me remember where the Schul is, though..

Arent they supposed to be buidling a massive Jewish Center and synangogue somewhere in the centre of town.. its supposed to have a museum, kindergarden, synogogue, library, etc.. any updates on when that will be done?

They need it now because the Jewish population of MUC has risen from 400 in 1945 to over 10,000 now .. MUC has the second largest population of jews in Germany behind Berlin..

The Reichenbachstr synagogue is orthodox. As they are the larger community, I THINK they are going to use the new synagogue at St Jakobs Platz and leave the liberals the older one.

Another place that comes recommended is Cafe Bracha on Klenzestrasse.
Young and trendy, not certified Koscher but run the ex-cook from the Reichnbachstr. community centre.

The new Jewish museum and synagogue is being built slap bang on my cycle track to work and, in good german tradition, they don't bother making it easy to get round...The site is opposite the stadt museum on the Sankt Jakobs platz. So far I'm in shock as to the monstrosity going up in what was a rather nice platz (history apart). It appears to be a huge square concrete box so far and does not seem to "blend" in at all. Still I rather suspect that the town planners have no control, they certainly seem to be letting some other questionable buildings go up in surprising places around town (e.g those two huge towers at the end of Leopold strasse looking north or even the old heating plant at thalkirchen).



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I would have preferred to keep St Jakobs Platz as a big open (but renovated) square. It is however, the ideal location to put the new synagogue and community centre.

the reason it took so long is that the federal government had a nuclear bunker beaneath the square and wouldn't let the site get builtuntil Munich City Council provided them a new one somewhere in the north of Munich.

Nuclear bunker...r u sure...it sounds great cold war and all...I just heard it was a left over from WWII. but it would be interesting to know where the gov has its new bunker just in case... (not that there would be much world left to survive in after).
The brits used to dispair that the only survivors after a nuclear war would be the swiss and it is true that they all have bunkers in their houses... I wonder what evolution would do with a diet of high radiation and cukoo clock genes.

Imagine the future of the human race if it was just Beamte interbreeding for 1000 years!

arrrggghhh