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The Schmooze Cracow Crescendo
Cracow Crescendo from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. “We sing in Yiddish, we sing in Hebrew and sometimes we sing in Polish,” explains Zofia Radzikowska who joined the JCC choir in Cracow when it first opened two years ago. At the beginning it was uncertain whether the choir would be able to attract enough members….
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Breaking News Poland Says Non-Commercial Kosher Slaughter Legal
Polish Jews who perform non-commercial ritual slaughter for the needs of the Jewish community are not violating the law, Poland’s parliament announced in a statement. The statement appeared in a position paper by the Sejm, Poland’s parliament, that parliament sent recently to the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, the Warsaw-based Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily newspaper reported Wednesday….
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Breaking News 7 Jewish Gravestones Used To Build Polish Home
Seven Jewish gravestones were discovered to have been used in the construction of a Polish home. The gravestones were used to build the ceiling of the basement of a home in Golina, Poland, TV Konin reported. It is believed that the headstones come from the Jewish cemetery in Golina, which has been completely destroyed. No…
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Breaking News 130,000 Poles Call for Referendum To Protect Kosher Slaughter
More than 130,000 Polish voters have signed a petition calling for a public referendum on an amendment that would legalize Jewish ritual slaughter, or shechitah, in Poland. The petition, circulated by the National Council of Agricultural Chambers, or KRIR, was submitted last week to the Chancellery of Polish Parliament, or Sejm. The parliament has two…
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Culture Painting Inspires Dialogue Between Jews and Catholics in Poland
One could not be unmoved when a group of young clerics from the local Catholic seminary sang a popular Israeli song in Hebrew, “Hevenu Shalom Aleikhem” (“We Brought Peace”), during a Catholic service in a small (and in January very sleepy) town in southeastern Poland. The Israeli ambassador to Poland, Zvi Rav Ner, could be…
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Breaking News 6 Jewish Gravestones Vandalized in Polish Cemetery
Vandals destroyed six tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in the Piasek district of Myslowice, a city in southern Poland. The identity of the vandals, who knocked down the nineteenth-century gravestones on Monday night, remains unknown. Last year, a group of local residents organized a cleaning of the cemetery, grubbing trees and bushes and cleaning the…
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Breaking News Polish Cops Nab Suspected Vandal at Jewish Cemetery
Police officers in Poland arrested a man whom they said they had caught desecrating Jewish tombstones. The suspect, who was not named, was arrested last week at the Jewish cemetery of Andrychow, 30 miles southwest of Krakow, the news site Wadowice24.pl reported Tuesday. At the 18th-century burial site, he had knocked down 13 tombstones before…
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Culture A Personal History of Blood Libel in Poland
Some years ago, an obsession with Polish poetry led me to two ideas: First, that I should visit Poland, and second, that someone else should pay for it. So I wrangled a Fulbright fellowship and spent a year traveling in Poland. (I mention the Fulbright not to brag, but because it bugs me when travel…
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