Milk & Honey Tours is a Jewish owned and operated Berlin-based tour company. We, Miriam Daur and Noa Lerner, are passionate about bringing Jewish visitors from the world over to Europe with the aim of re-discovering Jewish heritage here but also re-connecting with today’s communities across Europe. Our motivation is to show you how we live, our struggles and celebrations. And now a bit about us personally...

Miriam Daur, born 1966 in Frankfurt, moved to Berlin when she was five and considers herself a Berliner. She studied Jewish and North American Studies and finds the work with Milk & Honey Tours the perfect union of these two disciplines. She has worked for many years as a group leader and conceptual advisor for Bridge of Understanding, which brings young American Jews to Germany on a learning program. With relatives in Israel and the United States, Miriam has spent time in both countries. She is an active member of the Jewish community of Berlin and co-founder of a Kiddush group. To any-one considering a trip to Europe, Miriam says, “We the Jews in Germany are here – come find out about us!”

Noa Lerner, born 1965 near Düsseldorf, studied Theology and History and moved to Berlin in 1999. Noa has worked at various Jewish museums and university departments for Jewish Studies in Germany. She is an active member of the Jewish community of Berlin. Noa’s chuppah was raised in the court-yard of Berlin’s New Synagogue. Her son was born in 2002, the same year that she founded the Network for Jewish Women in German-speaking countries. Noa’s passion is to promote Jewish social and cultural life in all its facets.

Our Guides
We, Miriam and Noa, hand-pick our guides: we put great effort into finding a guide who suits you. The key ingredient is that not only do all of our guides have a vast knowledge-base of local history and Jewish history, but each one also has an area of specialization. Mostly Jewish Studies or History majors, they come from all walks of life…doing a PhD on the Jewish press in the 19th century, acting in the local Yiddish-speaking theater, leading workshops to unlearn anti-Semitism in schools, working at the local Jewish Museum, organizing intercultural meetings, teaching at university or writing books about fascinating topics on Jewish life past and present. Yet knowledge alone is not enough. We work with people who know how to explain complex social and historical realities in understandable terms. Our guides are worldly. Most speak several languages fluently and have lived or traveled extensively in North and South America, Israel, Australia and all over Europe. This is the Milk & Honey Tours’ style: knowledgeable, sensitive, enthusiastic and with love for the ’Jewish way of life.’ Come and meet our guides and have an enlightening conversation you’ll never forget!