Jörg Lau
Jörg Lau (b. 1964) is an editor for the weekly Die Zeit. His core concerns are Islam, liberalism, integration and religion. In a recent essay he addressed the new patriotism, left-wing Leitkultur (mainstream culture) in Germany and how this relates to living in a “country of immigration”.
Updated: 9 February 2010
With an estranged foreign minister on one side and a less than united coalition on the other, the government of Angela Merkel must steer through an increasingly difficult international context. It's an uncertainty that affects all of Europe. 
The Jewish community in Germany, estimated at 200,000, faces its greatest postwar upheaval, what with the immigration waves from the former Soviet republics and a new generation for whom the Holocaust and Israel are faraway matters, writes Die Zeit