When the prize is awarded to the Chancellor: Josef Joffe, Editor of the »Zeit«, Angela Merkel, Rabbi Walter Jacob and Rabbi Walter Homolka, President of the Abraham Geiger College (v.l.) [http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/24082]
Leslie Bergman in the EUPJ-Newsletter about the Abraham Geiger Award Winner 2015:
„Angela Merkel is a great political leader. And I felt happy that she was being honoured by Jews, and in particular, by an institution of European Progressive Judaism.“
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