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Topic: Donald Tusk

May 16, 2013
11:50 am

A rabbi sharpens the knife to be used for traditional Jewish slaughter (illustrative photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

After ban, Poland may reinstate kosher slaughter

Farmers, producers and now lawmakers say they regret kibosh being put on kosher and halal meat in deference to animal rights

By Vanessa Gera

April 24, 2013
10:13 am

Poland drafts regulations to allow ritual slaughter

The country’s halal and kosher slaughter business worth $250 million annually

April 23, 2013
12:38 pm

People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz at the Warsaw Ghetto, the monument at the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (photo credit: Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

An alternative Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial

During last week’s commemorations, the grave of the uprising’s last surviving commander was blanketed in daffodils. Here’s why

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

March 27, 2013
8:55 am

Psychiatric tests for anti-Semitic terror suspect

Polish prosecutors request a month of observation of man accused of plotting to bomb country’s parliament

February 26, 2013
7:33 pm

Threats against Polish officials cite ‘Jewish mafia’

A supporter of an embattled Catholic TV channel claims the country’s president and prime minister are part of a Jewish plot

By Nissan Tzur

December 4, 2012
11:44 pm

‘Righteous gentiles’ honored in Poland

Israeli ambassador confers posthumous recognition to men and women who saved Jews during the Holocaust

By Nissan Tzur

November 29, 2012
12:03 pm

American lawyer and IPRC (Immovable Property Review Conference) co-chairman Stuart E. Eizenstat talks to journalists in Prague, on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/CTK, Katerina Sulova)

Jewish groups struggle to regain Nazi-seized property

Prague conference calls on European governments to fulfill pledges to return real estate or provide fair compensation

By Karel Janicek

November 23, 2012
6:20 pm

Polish opposition party activist suspended for anti-Semitic post

Faction leader — a former prime minister — may permanently bar Artur Nicpon for telling Jews to leave country

November 21, 2012
8:39 am

Polish lawmakers have not enacted any form of private restitution or compensation for the estimated $30.5 billion worth of property confiscated by the Nazis, then the communists. (Alik Keplicz/AP)

Poles thwart anti-Semite’s plot to blow up parliament, president and prime minister

Security agents arrest academic researcher accused of planning massive explosion in the heart of Warsaw