Konstanty Gebert
By Konstanty Gebert
-
News Poles Commemorate Warsaw Uprising in Marek Edelman’s Style, With Silence
Hundreds of young people, mostly non-Jews, milled around Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery on a sunny spring day, slightly unsure about what they were supposed to do next. Their schools had sent them there April 19 in response to an appeal by a number of Jewish and civic organizations. They had come to honor the late Marek…
-
News Why Poland’s Jews Mourn Their President
Two years ago, Poland’s president brought its chief rabbi to the Katyn Forest, where in 1940, 20,000 Polish army officers were slaughtered at the order of Josef Stalin. There, the politician insisted on showing the cleric a memorial plaque erected for Rabbi Baruch Steinberg, the army’s World War II-era chief rabbi, who was murdered with…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
- 2
Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
- 3
News They texted about Torah and mitzvahs. Feds say they were insider trading
- 4
Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Piers Morgan is what’s wrong with media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and I can’t stop watching him
-
Culture The Jewish secret to affordable eyewear that isn’t so secret anymore
-
Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
-
Looking Forward When the 92nd Street Y was a hub for Black innovation in dance