School of General Education

The first Jewish girls' school for the Jewish community in Berlin was opened in 1835 in Mitte. After several changes of location, it moved to Auguststra&szlig 11 in 1930. The building had been completed two years earlier by Alexander Beer, the community's master builder at the time. He had the house built in the New Objectivity style. With an area of 3,000 m² it offered space for über 300 Schülerinnen.

The Philanthropin, founded in 1804 as a "place of humanity" by the Frankfurt Jewish community, moves into its new quarters at Hebelstrasse 15-19 in 1908. The Berlin magistrate Georg Matzdoff, together with the engineer Ernst Hiller, is awarded the contract for a new school building in the neo-Renaissance style.

The "Knabenpensionat" had been founded by the preacher Hermann Hirsch in 1917, when Hirsch had returned from his deployment in the First World War. Just two years after the founding of the boarding school, the villa at Hohe Straße 30 was owned by Hermann Hirsch. The boys' boarding school was to provide a home for boys who were attending secondary school in Coburg. Hermann Hirsch worked at the boarding school as a religion teacher.

The Chabad Lubavitch in Minsk at 22 Korpotkina Street is headed by Rabbi Shneur Deitch and Basya Deitch. Chabad Lubavitch is an institution of Hasidic Jews in Belarus. Chabad is an acronym of the words Chochma (wisdom), Bina (knowledge) and Daat (knowledge), which are of central importance to the Hasidic people. This Chabad house on Korpotkina Street is a central contact point for the community in Minsk. In addition to educational facilities for children and adults, there is a synagogue, a library and a kosher store, as well as a Jewish gift store.