Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Shalem College Open House

Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Sivan 26, 5773
10:32 am IDT
Site updated 7 minutes ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Vanessa Gera

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 21, 2013
4:07 pm

Tad Taube poses in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. Taube, 82, who narrowly escaped the Holocaust fleeing from Poland in 1939, is one of the main donors for the new partially opened Polish Jewish history museum. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum

Polish-born Tad Taube was the driving force behind the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, aimed to prevent the Holocaust from becoming the beginning and end of Polish Jewry

By Vanessa Gera

April 19, 2013
1:50 pm

Simha Rotem, one of the last living Warsaw Ghetto fighters, speaks in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial, during a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

Warsaw marks 70th anniversary of ghetto uprising

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski leads ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

By Vanessa Gera

April 13, 2013
2:23 am

People enter the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland (photo credit:AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland

Museum exhibits to celebrate centuries of Jewish life, confront Poles with their country’s own dark chapters of anti-Semitism

By Vanessa Gera

March 12, 2013
7:56 pm

Visitors inspect the painted ceiling of a reconstructed wooden synagogue at Warsaw's soon-to-open Museum of the History of Polish Jews. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Polish Jewish museum unveils reconstructed shul roof

Scheduled to open next year, Warsaw cultural center hopes to join ranks of Yad Vashem and US Holocaust Museum

By Vanessa Gera

February 2, 2013
10:43 pm

The headquarters of Warsaw’s Jewish community, right, known as the “white building,” could be torn down to make way for a taller, modern building. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Warsaw Ghetto building pits Jews against fellow Poles

In historic irony, gentiles seek to save structure the city’s growing Jewish community wants to knock down

By Vanessa Gera

December 21, 2012
4:56 am

A man walks past street art in east London, Thursday, December 20, 2012. (photo credit: Matt Dunham/AP)

The end of the world (party) is upon us

From the Mayan pyramids at Chichen Itza to Stalin’s bunker in Moscow, global doomsday hot-spots draw believers, revelers

By Vanessa Gera

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

By Vanessa Gera

October 28, 2012
9:53 pm

New Warsaw museum preserves 1,000 years of Jewish life

Museum of the History of Polish Jews aims to join the ranks of Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust museum, but does not focus only on tragedy

By Vanessa Gera

September 14, 2012
12:15 am

Franciszek Herzog holds a photograph of his father, also named Franciszek Herzog, in Hebron, Conn. Herzog's father and uncle both died in the Katyn Forest massacres. (photo credit: AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Newly declassified memos show US hushed up 1940 Soviet mass murder

It was the Soviets, not the Nazis, who killed 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head in or near the Katyn forest. Documents confirm suspicion Roosevelt kept silent so as not to anger Stalin

By Randy Herschaft and Vanessa Gera

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Vanessa Gera

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

US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum

Polish-born Tad Taube was the driving force behind the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, aimed to prevent the Holocaust from becoming the beginning and end of Polish Jewry

Warsaw marks 70th anniversary of ghetto uprising

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski leads ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland

Museum exhibits to celebrate centuries of Jewish life, confront Poles with their country’s own dark chapters of anti-Semitism

Polish Jewish museum unveils reconstructed shul roof

Scheduled to open next year, Warsaw cultural center hopes to join ranks of Yad Vashem and US Holocaust Museum

Warsaw Ghetto building pits Jews against fellow Poles

In historic irony, gentiles seek to save structure the city’s growing Jewish community wants to knock down

The end of the world (party) is upon us

From the Mayan pyramids at Chichen Itza to Stalin’s bunker in Moscow, global doomsday hot-spots draw believers, revelers

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

New Warsaw museum preserves 1,000 years of Jewish life

Museum of the History of Polish Jews aims to join the ranks of Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust museum, but does not focus only on tragedy

Newly declassified memos show US hushed up 1940 Soviet mass murder

It was the Soviets, not the Nazis, who killed 22,000 Poles with shots to the back of the head in or near the Katyn forest. Documents confirm suspicion Roosevelt kept silent so as not to anger Stalin

Latest Articles

Latest Blogs

The Times of Israel on Facebook