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The article reports on the Jewish community in Germany in 2008 and the impact on it of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. The inability or unwillingness on the part of the newcomers to assimilate with the German-Jewish community is the source of discord, the article reports. Issues of Jewish identity are explored.

The article reports on the Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic minority that occupies parts of the German states of Brandenberg and Saxony. At issue is a 2008 decision on the part of the German federal government to cut subsidies that support Sorbian cultural institutions. The assimilation policies of the German government are discussed, as are subsidies to other minority groups.