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Opinion Avraham Verdiger, 92, Was Haredi Labor’s Last Leader
Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust survivors at Zeilsheim DP camp in Germany, preparing to settle at Hafetz Haim, the first Haredi kibbutz, circa 1947 (Yad Vashem) On the eve of Hanukkah, while the eyes of the world were fixed on the impending demise of one human rights champion, Nelson Mandela, and the sudden, unexpected emergence of another, Pope…
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Fast Forward Polish Parliament Makes Partisan Who Warned of Holocaust Person of the Year
Poland’s parliament named 2014 the Year of Jan Karski, honoring the man who alerted the allies about the Holocaust and sought their intervention. Last week’s unanimous vote in the Sejm marked the centennial of the birth of Karski. Karski, not Jewish and born in Lodz in 1914, was a courier for the Polish underground resistance…
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The Schmooze Sigmund Rolat Receives Jan Karski Award
Recipient of the Jan Karski Award at the November 18 David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies 10th Anniversary Dinner was survivor, philanthropist, Sigmund Rolat. In his acceptance speech Rolat — who unveiled a monument dedicated to Czestochowa’s 40,000 Jewish citizens who perished in Treblinka, restored the city’s philharmonic–naming it after Bronislaw Huberman (founder of…
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Fast Forward Kosher Slaughter Gets New Hearing in Poland
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal has accepted for review an appeal by the Polish Jewish Community on the delegitimization of shechitah. Representatives of Jewish community were informed on Tuesday that the Constitutional Tribunal will consider the appeal. “It’s a promising sign on the eve of Chanukah,” Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Communities in…
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Fast Forward Polish Memorial to ‘Righteous’ Gentiles Set for Warsaw Ghetto — Despite Objection
A monument commemorating Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust will be constructed near the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The monument construction committee made the announcement on Friday. The monument construction is scheduled to be completed in fall 2014. The committee was initiated by Polish-Jewish businessman and philanthropist Sigmund Rolat. “A monument…
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The Schmooze First Look at Museum of Polish Jews
When Warsaw’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ main exhibition opens to the public in September 2014, it will add to the city’s Jewish historical trail something which does not presently exist: a history of Jewish life. The core exhibition has been in development since 2003, when the master plan, including the concept and…
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Forward 50 2013 Tad Taube
Throughout his career as a real estate and sportswear executive, president of the Koret Foundation and chairman of Taube Philanthropies, co-founder of the United States Football League and principal of its team, the Oakland Invaders, Thaddeus “Tad” Taube, 82, has been known for his significant philanthropic efforts and his Jewish focus. These two proclivities converged…
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News Poland’s Jewish Revival Marred by Anti-Semitism of All Stripes
Michael Schudrich, chief rabbi of Poland, was on hand to affix the mezuza at the entrance to Warsaw’s first Jewish community center at its grand unveiling, October 27. The act of opening the building and cutting the ribbon was not his, however, but given over to a young boy while Schudrich helped hold the band…
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