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Community On The Borderland: Big Ideas In A Little Polish Town
The scene: a bright red porch in the northeast corner of Poland, close to the borders of Lithuania, Belarus, and Russian Kaliningrad. I’m holding a steaming cup of tea, brewed from local herbs and sweetened with local honey. I’m talking with a cultural activist named Krzysztof Czyzewski (k-SHISH-toff chi-ZEF-ski). Our topic: the agora. Agora is…
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Breaking News Polish Official May Go To Jail For Letting Old Jewish School Building Get Razed
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish conservator is facing a prison term for allowing the demolition of a former Jewish school building in central Poland. The Prosecutor’s Office in Konin this week charged the conservator, identified as Janusz T. in Polish news reports, for abuse of power by a public official. Janusz headed up a…
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Fast Forward Poland Sets 6-Month Deadline For Warsaw Restitution Claims
(JTA) — The municipality of Warsaw published a list of 48 buildings claimed in now-dormant restitution suits, opening a six-month window for new claims under recent legislation. If no action is taken on the property before the deadline, it will be transferred permanently to the city, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, wrote in a…
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Breaking News Krakow JCC Poland To Create Pluralistic Jewish Nursery School
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The JCC of Krakow has received a $500,000 grant from the New York City-based Eric and Erica Schwartz Family Foundation, the largest single grant awarded to a Polish Jewish organization in the last 20 years, The funds will support the creation of an Early Childhood Center at JCC Krakow located in…
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Food How Polish Jews Used Matzo to Thwart Anti-Semitism
If the head of a major Polish TV station is to be believed, Jews are behind anti-government protests in Poland — and are handing out matzo outside Parliament to egg on demonstrators. Those are the allegations that were made in a poem written and read on Poland’s state-funded TVP2 television network last week by Marcin…
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Opinion How I Came To Grips With My Bias Against Poles — on Visit to Auschwitz
OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — I did a shameful thing on my first visit 20 years ago to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In a guestbook outside an Auschwitz museum exhibit featuring information on 70,000 Polish non-Jews who were murdered here, I downplayed the significance of their deaths by writing: “Your pain is no credential here,…
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Israel News How Jared Kushner Became a Teenage Hero — and Learned To Be a Zionist
Almost 20 years before Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Donald Trump, a man who has boasted about groping women’s genitals, he rescued a teenage girl from a groping attack in Poland. The incident happened in 1998, when Kushner was a high school participant in the March of the Living, a Holocaust education trip…
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Opinion How Auschwitz Can Be Both a Memorial and a Center for Education
How should we define the authentic remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which today are protected and preserved by the Auschwitz Memorial? Should we define it as: 150 buildings, about 300 ruins, including those of five gas chambers and four crematoria in Birkenau that are especially important to the history of…
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