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Children enjoy a bubble party in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, for Children's Day, June 1, 2023. (Screenshot from YouTube/Kan via JTA)
June 7, 2023, 12:25 am
Polish city throws bubble party on playground over Jewish graves
Chief rabbi of Poland sends letter of complaint to mayor Kazimierz Dolny, says city has refused to engage on protecting remains still buried beneath razed cemetery
By Dinah Spritzer
Illustrative: A view of the Górki Czechowskie park in Lublin, Poland. (Park na Górkach Czechowskich)
May 21, 2023, 11:26 pm
World War II-era mass grave discovered in Lublin, Poland
Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says he does not know whether the bodies are those of Jews
By ToI Staff
A puppet represents an Orthodox Jew, left, in a video of a nativity scene that the Museum of Krakow in Poland pulled offline in April 2023. (Museum of Krakow)
April 19, 2023, 11:31 am
Polish museum scraps Christian children’s show featuring threats to beat Jews
Museum of Krakow had been showing a nativity scene production that berated Jews for being ‘ashamed of the Messiah’
By Canaan Lidor
Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and the country's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, right, light a candle during a Hanukkah ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
December 19, 2022, 11:46 pm
At Hanukkah reception, Polish president thanks Jews for aiding Ukrainian refugees
Andrzej Duda notes that country’s Jewish community has been active in organizing housing, food, education and other services for Ukrainian Jews and non-Jews alike
By Vanessa Gera
Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks during an interview in Warsaw on February 28, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
March 1, 2022, 12:50 am
Poland’s chief rabbi leads effort to receive Ukrainian Jewish refugees
Michael Shudrich says dozens have been helped by ad hoc crisis group, as community prepares for many more displaced people fleeing Russian invasion
By Lazar Berman
Magda Rubenfeld Koralewska (front) on a walking tour of the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow. (Stan Baranski/FestivALT)
November 23, 2021, 9:07 pm
Jewish group seeks to stall plan to finally commemorate Krakow concentration camp
Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site
By Amy Spiro
This photo from December 2, 2019, shows an oversized urn placed by the artist group 'Center for Political Beauty" in front of German parliament building, the Reichstag, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 3, 2019, 3:49 pm
Outrage after activists place ashes of ‘Auschwitz victims’ outside Reichstag
International Auschwitz Committee says large urn outside German parliament in Berlin harms ‘eternal peace of the dead;’ Germany’s Council of Jews urges remains be given respect
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Worshippers locked out of Izaak Synagogue, Krakow, July 1, 2019 (Courtesy Rabbi Avi Baumol)
September 25, 2019, 11:34 pm
Rabbi evicted from Krakow synagogue must be allowed back, Polish court rules
Jewish community barred Chabad’s Eliezer Gurary from premises, claiming he and his congregants damaged site
By JTA
Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich speaks at a gala celebration marking the opening of an American Jewish Committee office for Central Europe in Warsaw, Poland, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 7, 2019, 9:47 pm
Polish government invites top rabbi to event honoring accused Nazi collaborators
Rabbi Michael Schudrich blasts ceremony for Swietokrzyska Brigade, held under auspices of Polish president; condemns ‘dangerous’ historical revisionism
By AFP
Vandalism at the newly renovated Jewish cemetery in Tarnow in southern Poland, July 2019. The graffiti reads, 'Jews eat children. Jadowniki eat Jews.' Jadowniki is a nearby village. (Facebook/Natalia Gancarz/via JTA)
July 22, 2019, 11:04 pm
Historic Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized a month after rededication
Graffiti at newly renovated site in Tarnow in southern Poland reads ‘Jews eat children’; official calls incident ‘result of anti-Semitism and deep depravity’
By Katarzyna Markusz
Chief Polish Rabbi Michael Schudrich climbs fence of barricaded Krakow synagogue. (Shimon Briman/JTA)
July 5, 2019, 10:22 pm
Chief Polish rabbi climbs fence of barricaded Krakow synagogue
Spiritual leader briefly detained while protesting eviction of Orthodox community’s house of worship by a Chabad-affiliated group
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Polish Bishop Andrzej Jeż gives an address in March 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)
May 3, 2019, 4:43 pm
Polish bishop delivers thinly veiled anti-Semitic sermon
Andrzej Jeż appears to refer to Jews during Easter speech, saying ‘certain nation’ plotted in 1937 to slander Catholic Church by controlling media
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A person walks past the building where the 'Warsaw Ghetto Museum' will be located, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, December 14, 2018. (AP photo/Alik Keplicz)
April 24, 2019, 1:46 am
Community leaders say ‘first’ Warsaw Ghetto seder no different from all others
The Chabad-led Passover event at a hotel overlooking the former ghetto may have been memorable, but it was far from unprecedented, and calling it so misses the point, locals say
By Yaakov Schwartz
Chief Rabi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, says prayers for the dead at a cemetery where eight Jews killed by the Germans in 1944 were buried, along with the Polish Ulma family that was sheltering them, in Jagiella, Poland, on Thursday, March 17, 2016 during ceremonies honoring the Ulmas and hundreds of Poles who lost their lives trying to save Jews in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 1, 2018, 10:11 pm
Amid raging Holocaust law controversy, Poland’s chief rabbi urges nuance
Michael Schudrich is not afraid of doling out a little tough love as two communities with a 1,000 year history lock horns over what, he says, could really be a minor issue
By Yaakov Schwartz, Raphael Ahren and Amanda Borschel-Dan
This photo from Dec. 5, 2017, shows an unidentified man holding human remains which had been removed from an old Jewish cemetery and dumped in huge mounds in Siemiatycze, Poland. (Aleksander Schwarz/The Union of Jewish Communities in Poland via AP)
December 26, 2017, 4:18 am
Polish official sacked for desecration of Jewish cemetery
Andrzej Nowakowski fired after human remains uncovered during construction work near graveyard in Siemiatycze
By JTA
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