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Fast Forward Israeli Tourist Suffers ‘anti-Semitic abuse’ in Poland
An Israeli tourist visiting Poland reportedly filed a complaint with police against a taxi driver for making anti-Semitic remarks. The tourist, Clila Bau, visited Poland last week with her sister, Hadas, according to the online edition of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. The two came to Krakow to attend an exhibition of the works of…
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Fast Forward Krakow Synagogue Gets Scroll From Italy
Krakow’s Progressive Jewish community has received its first Torah scroll, which was donated by a sister community in Milano. The Torah scroll arrived in Poland and at the Beit Krakow community on Oct. 5 along with several members of Milano’s Beth Shalom Jewish Reform Congregation, according to Magda Koralewska of Beit Krakow. Rabbi Leigh Lerner…
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Fast Forward Jewish Gravestones Recovered From River in Poland
Pieces of Jewish gravestones found at the bottom of Poland’s longest river have been returned to a Jewish cemetery. The 17 gravestone pieces from the Jewish cemetery in the Brodno district were found at the bottom of the Vistula River, which is at a record low water level due to drought. In addition to the…
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News Painting as Prayer in Poland
This summer I traveled for the first time to Poland, where my grandparents were born, to help recreate an 18th-century wooden synagogue from the town of Gwoździec. This trip was an expression of a deep desire to connect with my own “Polishness.” I wanted to engage in a creative activity in a place often associated…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Chair Named to Auschwitz Council
The chairman of Yad Vashem has been appointed the deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. The appointment of Avner Shalev by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was announced by Yad Vashem on Tuesday. The International Auschwitz Council was established by Poland in 2000. It is an advisory body to the prime minister on issued…
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Fast Forward Polish Jewish Museum Names New Director
Andrew Cudak began work as the new interim director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. He was appointed to the position by Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz. Cudak, whose first day was Thursday, is charged with finishing the construction of the museum, completing the main exhibition and preparing to open the museum. Cudak…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Synagogue Damaged by Shopping Center
The Jewish community in Lviv, Ukraine has warned that construction of a new shopping center could seriously damage a historic synagogue next to the site. Construction on the shopping center in downtown Lviv began on July 23 next to the Jakob Glanzer synagogue. Reports in the local media carried photographs and a description of the…
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Fast Forward Statue Unveiled for Warsaw Ghetto Hero
Polish government officials unveiled a memorial plaque in Warsaw in honor of Warsaw Ghetto hero Janusz Korczak. Sunday’s unveiling took place exactly 70 years after German soldiers sent Korczak and 192 Jewish orphans to their deaths in Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp. Korczak, director of the Dom Sierot orphanage for Jewish children, declined help from…
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