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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 590

Krakow JCC

Free food pantry at JCC Krakow for Ukrainian refugees in 2022. (Courtesy)
September 8, 2024, 5:35 pm
With a world weary of war, donations dry up for Ukrainian refugees at JCC Krakow
Jewish Community Center in city adjacent to Auschwitz raised $12m for Ukrainian refugees since 2022. But as money runs out, the new residents may lose yet another port in their storm
By Matt Lebovic
Jonathan Ornstein lighting fireworks at the 10th anniversary celebration of the Jewish Community Center in Krakow, April 22, 2018. (Jakub Włodek/via JTA)
April 28, 2018, 6:13 pm
In Krakow, Jews celebrate their community’s ‘revival’ amid rising xenophobia
During one of the worst waves of anti-Semitism in decades, a tsunami of hate speech has community Jews kitting out emergency shelters — just in case
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Poland's President Andrzej Duda gives a press conference on February 6, 2018, in Warsaw. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
February 27, 2018, 5:46 pm
Poland’s president visits Krakow JCC in bid to appease Jewish community
Andrzej Duda denies crisis over controversial Holocaust law, says he hopes issue will be quickly resolved
By JTA
David Breakstone
January 28, 2018, 6:06 pm
David Breakstone
Lost and found in Auschwitz
On the miracle of a Jewish community in Poland that has emerged from the black shadows of the Holocaust
Sara Zielinski, with her mother Elizabeth, center, and a volunteer at a pre-Shabbat program at the Jewish Community Center of Krakow. Sara is part of the inaugural class of Frajda, the first pluralistic Jewish nursery and preschool in Krakow since World War II. (Courtesy of Jewish Community Center of Krakow/via JTA)
September 24, 2017, 6:11 pm
Krakow JCC’s new preschool signals hope for a community’s rebirth
Against the odds, Frajda will become the city’s first pluralistic Jewish nursery since before WWII
By Penny Schwartz
The Jewish Community Center in Krakow, Poland. (Public Domain, Birczanin, Wikipedia)
February 21, 2017, 12:05 am
Krakow JCC receives grant to create pluralistic Jewish nursery school
Facility will be first of its kind to be built in Polish city since World War II
By JTA
Pope Francis receiving his membership card to the Krakow Jewish Community Center from its director, Jonathan Ornstein, July 31, 2016. (Courtesy of Krakow JCC)
August 1, 2016, 3:13 am
Pope Francis becomes newest Krakow JCC member
To conclude visit to Poland and tour of Auschwitz, pontiff receives JCC card, acid-green JCC T-shirt
By JTA
American rapper Kosha Dillz performing at the Tempel Synagogue during Night of the Synagogues in Krakow, Poland, on June 4, 2016. (Ruth Ellen Gruber)
June 6, 2016, 10:13 pm
In Krakow, Night of the Synagogues bolsters Jewish pride
Houses of worship transformed to house art exhibits, concerts and movie showings in one-night mini-festival organized by community leaders
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Robert Desmond (left) at the finish line of the 'Ride for the Living' in June 2014. (Courtesy)
June 3, 2016, 5:50 am
‘Overwhelming’ number of riders in Auschwitz bike event
At least 150 cyclists from 8 countries will take part in third ‘Ride for the Living’ event in Poland
By JTA
The portraits of 12 Polish Holocaust survivors are featured on a 2016 calendar put out on December 10, 2015, by the JCC Krakow in cooperation with the Child Survivors of the Holocaust Association. (screen capture: JCC Krakow)
December 10, 2015, 9:43 pm
Polish Holocaust survivors featured in ’16 calendar
The calendar reflects on the lives and achievements of 12 local survivors after the trauma of World War II
By JTA
Eighty-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski is an avid cyclist. (Courtesy)
June 5, 2015, 9:18 am
Now on bike, Montreal survivor retraces trek home after Auschwitz
Marcel Zielinski cycles the route he walked 70 years ago in search of his parents in charity ride for Krakow’s retired JCC members
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Katka, a Slovakian immigrant in Poland converting to Judaism, is one of the four main subjects in Adam Zucker's documentary 'The Return.' (courtesy)
October 24, 2014, 4:20 pm
New film suggests a bright future for Polish Jews
A talk with the director of ‘The Return,’ which opens Saturday in New York, on how he presents a positive look at a growing, hip Jewish community in an unexpected place
By Jordan Hoffman
January 1, 2013, 12:52 am
Israeli restaurant opens in Krakow’s old Jewish quarter
Unlike competitors, new eatery features only Middle Eastern food, without references to period before WWII
Martyna Majewska, center, guides a tour in Warsaw that shows former Jewish sites. (Marcin Kozlinski via JTA)
November 3, 2012, 1:44 pm
Polish gentiles increasingly embrace Jewish culture as part of their own heritage
Growing efforts to preserve and resurrect Poland’s Jewish past reflect changing attitudes to country’s anti-Semitic history
By Katarzyna Markusz
Graffiti on the wall of the Moment cafe in Krakow's Kazimierz Jewish quarter read 'Nazi Raus!' and also cross out the 'anti' in 'anti-Fascist.' (photo credit: Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
July 20, 2012, 4:07 am
When is anti-Semitism not anti-Semitism?
In Poland, a loud-mouthed waiter’s remarks and their hate-filled aftermath on the Internet can become an international incident
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
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