USC Annenberg’s 2025 Specialized Reporting: Religion Cohort
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USC Annenberg’s 2025 Specialized Reporting: Religion Cohort
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Ten students traveling to Germany to examine and write articles about extremism, authoritarianism and antisemitism through studying religion, culture and politics.

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Spent the afternoon at TuS Makkabi Berlin e.V., a fifth-division football club and the only with Jewish identity in Berlin.

Makkabi Berlin defeated TSG Nuestrelitz 3-2.

Story to eventually come on football and Jewry in modern-day Germany.
March 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
On Friday, we traveled to Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin, the state parliament building.

We spoke to and interviewed Ronald Gläser, an AfD state parliamentarian, as well as the CDU’s Roman Simon, an MP for Germany’s leading party.
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We met tonight with Deborah Feldman, the writer of “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” and “Judenfetisch.”
March 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Walking tour to start our first full day in Berlin:
March 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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We made it to Berlin — and are on our way to dinner with the Irish Times’ Berlin correspondent Derek Scally.
March 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We ran into Annenberg professor Afua Hirsch before boarding our flight to Munich, Germany!

Next up: Berlin ✈️🇩🇪
March 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM