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Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland, November 11, 2020. (Julia Bandurska/ via JTA)
November 20, 2020, 8:02 pm
Non-Jewish Polish leader works to clean up country’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries
While recent Independence Day celebrations saw xenophobic displays, Michał Laszczkowski and a group of Scouts — who have never met a Jew — use day to restore national history
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Kosher meat slaughtered in Poland bears the symbol of the Warsaw rabbinate. (JTA)
November 7, 2020, 5:27 am
Poland scraps bill barring ritual slaughter, vows to introduce new one
New proposal to be put forward by right-wing government expected to include call for ban on export of kosher, halal meat
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Women's rights activists protest against recent tightening of Poland's restrictive abortion law in front of the parliament building as inside, guards had to be used to shield right-wing ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski from angry opposition lawmakers, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 6, 2020, 3:45 pm
Abortion protests rock Poland, shining spotlight on longstanding communal rift
In the latest internal conflict to spill into public view, a pro-choice statement by the nonprofit Religious Jewish Community of Warsaw draws backlash from Orthodox rabbis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski reacts after the first exit polls during the party's electoral evening in Warsaw, Poland, on October 13, 2019 (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
October 15, 2020, 9:37 am
Poland will end its kosher and halal meat export industry in 2025
Most of Poland’s kosher, halal slaughterhouses produce meat for export; under new law, ritual slaughter will be allowed only if meat is sold locally
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Photograph by Roman Vishniac of Jewish schoolchildren in Mukacevo, Eastern Europe, in the 1930s. (© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography)
October 14, 2020, 3:39 am
Overlooked by Nazis, an untouched Jewish village in Poland remeets ‘real’ world
A must-read novel for fall, ‘The Lost Shtetl’ by first-time fiction writer Max Gross offers fable inspired by the great Yiddish writers that comforts and challenges in corona times
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Three Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bombers in 1942. (Wikipedia/Royal Air Force official photographer/Public Domain)
October 12, 2020, 8:34 am
Polish divers face delicate mission to defuse British WWII ‘earthquake bomb’
Most nearby residents evacuated for 5-day operation that will attempt to slowly burn 19-foot bomb’s explosive charge without detonating, but some refuse to go due to pandemic
By Stanislaw Waszak
Przemysław Czarnek (Courtesy via JTA)
October 10, 2020, 11:09 am
New Polish education minister called Holocaust memorial a ‘scandal’
Przemysław Czernek named in cabinet reshuffle; last year said monument denoting places where Poles killed Jews during and after WWII was ‘slander’ and ‘anti-Polish’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of the modest former nuclear power plant control room in Obninsk, Russia, which is now a kind of museum. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
October 8, 2020, 2:16 pm
Russian home of world’s first nuclear plant gets first synagogue
Around 400 Jews live in Obninsk, outside Moscow, built to house staff of power station; prayer services to be held on Shabbat only, to start
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of police officers in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 1, 2020, 4:23 pm
German far-right terror suspect arrested in Poland
Man referred to as Jurgen K charged with possession of arms and explosives without permit
By AFP
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, welcomes his Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, September 28, 2020. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)
September 29, 2020, 7:22 pm
Under scrutiny, Poland and Hungary hit back on democratic standards in the EU
Both countries’ governments violate bloc’s rule of law standards; foreign ministers protest and establish ‘institute of comparative law’ to monitor EU countries
By AP
Illustrative: Prime rib and ribeye steaksk at the M25 meat restaurant in Tel Aviv. (Ran Biran)
September 17, 2020, 8:51 pm
Polish parliament drops bill’s proposal to ban export of kosher and halal meat
Amended bill ends breeding of animals for the fur industry, bans the use of circus animals and increases supervision on animal shelters
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Toppled headstones at the Jewish cemetery of Zabrze, Poland on September 11, 2020. (Dariusz Walerjański via JTA)
September 15, 2020, 7:57 am
Tombstones vandalized at Jewish cemetery in Poland
Around 20 headstones damaged in third case of vandalism at Polish Jewish graveyard this month
By Katarzyna Markusz
A piano that belonged to Władysław Szpilman is going up for auction. (Desa Uninicum via JTA)
September 12, 2020, 8:13 am
Possessions of Holocaust survivor behind ‘The Pianist’ story up for sale
Wladyslaw Szpilman’s experiences during WWII inspired Oscar-winning movie; priciest lot is a Steinway piano
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Youths take part in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/March of the Living)
September 8, 2020, 4:38 pm
In face of ongoing pandemic, New England March of the Living holds online event
Unable to converge at Auschwitz-Birkenau this spring, New England ‘March’ organizers persist in spreading ‘Never Again’ message in tribute September 9
By Matt Lebovic
Screen capture from video of Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, at the time NATO's first chief of intelligence. (YouTube)
September 1, 2020, 6:40 pm
Poland approves new German ambassador whose father prepared Hitler’s briefings
Warsaw’s ruling nationalist party reportedly resisted Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven as envoy because his father was senior officer for Nazis
By Vanessa Gera
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