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Fast Forward Rock Hurled Inside Polish Synagogue During Yom Kippur Prayers
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals hurled a rock into a synagogue in Gdansk in northern Poland, shattering the glass of one window while worshippers, including children, were inside. The assault on Gdansk’s New Synagogue occurred on Wednesday, during Yom Kippur, one of Judaism’s holiest days, the Jewish Religious Community in Gdansk wrote on its Facebook page….
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Life He Survived Holocaust And Had A Bar Mitzvah. Now His Grandson Returns To Bimah In Same Polish Synagogue
Philip Epstein has stood in the same exact spot on two separate occasions, 72 years apart. The first time was in 1946 when Epstein, a child Holocaust survivor, was called to the bimah to become a bar mitzvah at the Reicher Synagogue in Lodz, Poland. He was only eleven at the time, and according to…
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Culture This Actor Tackles Jewish Stereotypes — By Performing Them
Superstitions are strange things that often produce even stranger talismans. In Poland, one common type of good-luck token comes in unsettling forms: Paintings, magnets and statues of Jewish people, dressed like Shalom Aleichem characters, counting out gold coins. It sounds like a throwback to a darker time, but, much like the mascot of the Cleveland…
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Community Poland Must Reckon With How It Treated Jews During WWII, For Good And For Bad
The “Polish Death Camp Law” has stirred many feelings across Poland and Israel, and among Diaspora Jewry. Jail time has been removed for making a claim that “the Polish nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich,” but the law remains on the books. Many…
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Fast Forward Poland Accesses WWII-Era Archives Proving Efforts To Save Jews During Holocaust
(JTA) — Poland has obtained a World War II-era archive that documents efforts by Polish diplomats to get Jews out of Europe by issuing fake passports from Latin American countries. The Eiss archive shows that 330 people survived the Holocaust due to the efforts of the Polish diplomats based in Switzerland, and another 387 were…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem’s Top Historian Accepts Joint Israel-Poland Holocaust Declaration
(JTA) — Yad Vashem’s chief historian Dina Porat said Tuesday that “we can live with” much of the joint Holocaust declaration by Israel and Poland that has come in for criticism, including from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Porat in an interview with Israel’s Kan national broadcaster said the declaration should be changed but not canceled. The declaration made…
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Community Netanyahu Cares More About His Power Than About Jews
It’s not every week that the Israeli state Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issue statements rebuking the Prime Minister of Israel for distorting the historical record of one of the greatest tragedies ever to befall the Jewish people. But it did happen last week. What provoked this…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Slunk Home To U.S. After Polish Authorities Kicked Him Out
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer was stopped by authorities in Europe this week while attempting to make a surprise appearance at a conference in Sweden for young white nationalists, Think Progress reported Thursday. Spencer seemed to confirm this on Twitter, where he shared a Swedish tweet from an alt-right supporter lamenting that Spencer had been…
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