It’s Sunday, the cafés are full, the weekly market is already packed, and the usual weekend options feel too familiar. This is the perfect moment to head to the courtyard of the Neue Synagoge on Oranienburger Straße. On 21.06.2026, Berlin’s Jewish Community invites you to the 5th Kosher Street Food Festival, with free admission, more than 50 food trucks and stands, and a menu that ranges from rogalach, sabich, charcoal-grilled pargiot, and babka to specially kosher-prepared momos, poke bowls, and Indian dishes. The festival is a preview of the 39th Jewish Culture Days Berlin, which will bring together music, theater, literature, film, art, conversations, and encounters from 12.-22.11.2026. The first program highlights have already been announced. For the festival opening, Marina Maximilian brings together pop, soul, jazz, and electronic sounds, while Rami Kleinstein will take the stage for a concert evening. But before the stages and concert halls take over in November, June is about eating and celebrating. Alongside the food stands, there will be a stage program with comedy by Christian Schulte-Loh, acrobatics by Monsieur Chapeau, a magic show, and live music by the Weichsel Sharks Jazz Band and Schalldruck. For children and families, there will be, among other things, a bouncy castle and a petting zoo. If you want to discover just how diverse kosher cuisine can be, come by on Sunday, eat your way through the festival, and get a first glimpse of Berlin’s Jewish culture along the way.

Text: Emilie Graz / Photos: Boaz Arad

Neue Synagoge Berlin, Oranienburger Str.28–30; 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map

5th Kosher Street Food Festival 21.06.2026 11–21h. Admission is free. There will be an exclusive 20% discount on selected tickets for the 39th Jewish Culture Days, available on site.

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What do social media, cloud computing and LLMs have in common, besides the fact that they’re all heavily enmeshed in our lives? The answer is that all of these systems are dominated by two or three giant companies. If you are looking for an alternative to this hyper centralization, you might be interested in checking out the Web3 Summit, an upcoming gathering of folks on a mission to fix the internet (18 & 19.06.2026). Featuring conversations, workshops and installations, the two-day program is all about creating a decentralized, democratic digital space. The colorful lineup of futurists and commentators includes economist and author Yanis Varoufakis, Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, self-declared cypherpunk Rachel-Rose O’Leary and blockchain legal expert Nina Siedler. Their guiding principle is Web3, a way of running the internet that uses distributed ledgers known as blockchains – a technology you may know from bitcoin and NFTs.

Discussions include how to protect privacy, what digital ownership really means and how to make the web more participatory. The program also encourages you to get hands on yourself by playing with and remixing decentralized software at the Playground.dot app-building space. Meanwhile, the culture side of things includes an ambient performance by violinist Hoshiko Yamane and composer Makoto Sakamoto followed by an afterparty with sunshine sounds from NTS resident Prosumer – a fun way to re-anchor yourself in the present after two days venturing into the furthest frontiers. 

Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Best Film Forever (BFF), Funkhaus Berlin

Funkhaus Berlin, Nalepastr.18-50, 12459 Berlin–Oberschöneweide; map

Web3 Summit (18 & 19.06.2026) – tickets and program on the website. With the code “CEECEE25,” you’ll receive a 25% discount.

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