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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
Yael Schoultz founded a group called L'Chaim, which counsels and supports sex workers. (Courtesy of Schoultz via JTA)
May 27, 2023, 4:32 am
Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers in Prague
Yael Schoultz has been dispensing sanitary products and a shoulder to lean on at brothels since 2011; now through L’Chaim, the group she founded, she seeks to help trafficked women
By Dinah Spritzer
Graffiti found in Warsaw reads "Morawiecki is Chabad Lubavitch," referring to the country's non-Jewish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavich movement. (Courtesy of Czulent via JTA)
April 25, 2023, 4:08 am
Jewish group’s report finds rise in antisemitic incidents in Poland
First survey of its kind counts 488 anti-Jewish acts in Poland in 2022, more than 4 times the total cited by the European Union the previous year
By Dinah Spritzer
Tzvi Arieli, seen here praying in a Ukrainian army barracks in 2017, is a Ukrainian immigrant from Israel who is fighting in its army. (Courtesy Arieli/ via JTA)
March 28, 2022, 2:13 am
From tefillin to training: The Orthodox former IDF soldier on Ukraine’s front lines
42-year-old Tzvi Arieli is a Latvian native, an Israeli citizen and sees himself as Ukrainian. Now he’s battling Russian invaders — and has harsh words for Israel, his second home
By Dinah Spritzer
Evgeny Pavlovskiy and his son, Mykhailo Pavlovskiy, reunited in Warsaw after he managed to leave Ukraine. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
March 19, 2022, 9:46 am
Holocaust survivor, 95, flees solo from his home near Babyn Yar, makes it to Poland
With an exhausting journey that lasted 3 days rather than the 8 hours it would normally take, Evgeny Pavlovskiy became perhaps the oldest Ukrainian refugee to escape alone
By Dinah Spritzer
Konstantyn Batozsky, right, stands with fellow Ukrainians in Donetsk. (Courtesy of Batozsky)
March 6, 2022, 11:16 am
Ukrainian Jews push back against Putin’s ‘neo-Nazi’ claim as they gear up for battle
Taking up arms to defend their homes alongside their fellow countrymen, many Jewish volunteers reject the claim that Ukraine is a hotbed of antisemitism
By Dinah Spritzer
Jewish soldiers Asher, left, and David Cherkaskyi pray in their Dnipro, Ukraine, synagogue in 2022. (Courtesy David Cherkaskyi via JTA)
March 3, 2022, 4:35 pm
Orthodox father and son pick up arms, ready to defend their Ukraine hometown
20-year-old Hasidic Jew and his father say they are ‘ready to kill Russian soldiers’; force of 400 Ukrainians poised to repel expected attack on Dnipro
By Dinah Spritzer
Jewish candidate Jan Fischer is favored to advance to the second round of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic. (Courtesy of the Jan Fischer campaign via JTA)
January 10, 2013, 9:41 am
Czech ‘Joe Lieberman’ could be Europe’s first Jewish president
The son of an Auschwitz survivor, Jan Fischer compensates for his lack of charisma simply by being ‘ordinary’
By Dinah Spritzer
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)
December 6, 2012, 3:07 am
Poland seen as worst offender on Shoah restitution
Conference shows some progress, mostly evasion by governments across Central and Eastern Europe
By Dinah Spritzer
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