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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Union of Jewish Communities in Poland

Monika Krawczyk (YouTube screenshot)
January 24, 2019, 8:44 am
Poland’s main Jewish umbrella group elects first woman leader
Monika Krawczyk says her appointment is historic, calls restitution process her top priority but promises reforms in the future
By Katarzyna Markusz
A visitor explores a new exhibition devoted to an anti-Semitic campaign in Poland in 1968 that was the main reaction of the communist regime in power at the time to a student rebellion in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, March 9, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 9, 2018, 5:48 pm
Exhibit explores persecution of Jews amid brutal response to 1968 Polish revolt
In ‘Estranged: March ’68 and its Aftermath,’ POLIN Museum highlights anti-Semitic campaign that turned half of Poland’s surviving Jews into refugees
By Vanessa Gera
Henryk Zielinski (Screen capture: Twitter)
February 27, 2018, 2:56 pm
Polish priest claims Jews have a ‘different’ notion of truth
Jewish group in Poland files complaint after Henryk Zielinski says non-religious Jews believe truth is ‘whatever serves Israel’s interests’
By JTA
Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, reciting a prayer for the victims of the Jedwabne massacre at the town’s Jewish cemetery, July 10, 2016. Second from left is Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
July 22, 2016, 10:27 am
Polish officials rapped for perceived revisionism of Holocaust history
Censure comes following claims that Nazis, not Poles, were perpetrators of 1941 mass murder of Jews in Jedwabne
By JTA
The core exhibit of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was inaugurated in Warsaw, October 28, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 via JTA)
April 10, 2016, 6:35 pm
Polish Jewry museum named European Museum of the Year
Thousand-year history of country’s Jews raises ‘perpetually relevant questions’ of coexistence, say award judges
By JTA
Krzysztof Izdebski of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, January 21, 2015. (screenshot: YouTube)
November 29, 2015, 8:27 pm
Polish Jewish leader heads protest against new parliament
Krzysztof Izdebski ‘disappointed’ over lack of transparency in changes to country’s Constitutional Tribunal
By JTA
Rescuer Janusz Durko, 100 years old, speaks at an event gathering nearly 50 elderly Christian Poles who saved Jews during World War II, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, July 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
July 12, 2015, 11:54 pm
Christian Polish ‘heroes’ honored for rescuing Jews during Shoah
In poignant ceremony, 50 aging ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ thanked for risking lives during World War II
By Vanessa Gera
Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)
October 14, 2014, 4:09 am
Headstones used in Warsaw park returning to Jewish cemetery
Dilapidated graveyard, Poland’s largest of its kind, will undergo $1 million renovation
By JTA
Aerial view of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw (photo credit: courtesy)
November 19, 2013, 2:58 am
Polish Forbes sorry for defaming Jewish groups
Fearing lawsuit, magazine publishes apology and several retractions after articles accused Jewish leaders of corruption
By JTA and ToI Staff
Former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. (screen capture/:Youtube/Euronews)
October 30, 2013, 12:26 pm
Jewish world mourns passing of ex-Polish PM
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, considered a friend of Israel, was renowned for fighting anti-Semitism
By JTA
Rabbi Shai Piron at the Knesset, on February 3, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 15, 2013, 6:32 pm
Israeli minister sounds alarm on Polish kosher slaughter ban
Shai Piron warns that further rulings against Jewish community could follow if prohibition isn’t repealed
By Adiv Sterman
A rabbi sharpens the knife to be used for traditional Jewish slaughter (illustrative photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
September 2, 2013, 6:48 pm
Polish Jews turn to court over ban on kosher slaughter
Union of communities says new legislation contradicts older law; Muslim groups expected to make own petition
By JTA
The Jewish Cemetary in Prague. It was in use from the early 15th century until 1787. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)
April 10, 2013, 3:05 am
Europe’s communities overwhelmed by cemetery upkeep
Graveyards of annihilated communities are disintegrating as the remaining Jews use their limited resources on the living
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher sharpening his tools. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
November 28, 2012, 2:39 am
Polish court reportedly outlaws kosher slaughter
Ruling, which also bans Muslim butchery, appears to contradict 1997 agreement between government and Jewish community
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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