Jewish Community Dresden e.V. (JKD) - הקהילה היהודית דרזדן

The Jüdische Kultusgemeinde Dresden e.V. is a liberal Hasidic-Jewish community founded in September 2021 in Dresden-Neustadt. It sees itself as a young, lively and egalitarian community in which different people can come into contact with each other.

Since September 3, 2023, it has had its own shtiebel prayer room in a historic building on the site of the old Leipzig train station. In Yiddish, shtiebel means ‚small room‘ and goes back to pre-modern Jewish community meeting places in Eastern Europe.

The spiritual renewal community aims to offer Jews and Yiddish women, as well as associated non-Yiddish members, a place of community and to celebrate Jewish traditions. With its new paradigm, it aims to inspire its diverse members through music, food, art, movement and discussion.

First congregational rabbi: Akiva Weingarten, born 1984 in New York.

Jews were deported from the Old Leipzig Train Station to the Riga ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp during the Nazi era.