Tag: Poland

While the Ukraine was the birth place of the Chassidic movement, Poland and especially the Galicia area soon became the hub for most Chassidic activity after only two generations.

Last week saw the greatest modern (post-Holocaust) celebration of Jewish culture in Europe at the Krakow Jewish Cultural Festival.

July 4th is an important date in history. In the United States it is a day to celebrate independence from England.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Abe Schwartz of Detroit.

Children playing with dolls generally make good photo ops.

Last week Pope Benedict XVI went to Poland to honor his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

The issue of restitution for private property owned by Jews in Poland has long been a sore spot for many Jews of Polish origin.

When reporter Abraham Michael Rosenthal’s byline began appearing in The New York Times back in the 1940’s, the sensitivities of the paper’s owners – German Jews of the fully assimilated “Our Crowd” variety – dictated that he use the initials A.M. in place of his glaringly ethnic first name.

The first mention of Szczuczyn, located in northeastern Poland, was in 1466 when it was mentioned in documents as a village that belonged to private owners.

Recently I received a letter with an inquiry about the town of Mishnitz.

The conservative minority government of Poland's Law and Justice party has agreed to enter a coalition with two extreme-right parties.

Mati Pavlack, a rabbinic student studying at Yeshiva University, returned to Poland for Pesach to help the local population prepare and celebrate the holiday.

Jews had always been permitted to settle in Zakroczym without restriction.

Chag Hasmicha is a celebration honoring newly ordained rabbis.

There is evidence of Jewish presence in Lipno as early as the 18th century.

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Ilza is a picturesque town in a valley along the Ilzanka River in south-central Poland.

The village of Ozarów is located in the Kielce region. The Ozarów cemetery dates back almost 400 years and is one of the few remaining Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

The opening of the first full-time Chabad center in Poland, under the direction of Rabbi Shalom Ber and Dina Stambler, was made official at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim earlier this year.

After I wrote about the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland last week, many people asked me to report more on this group and the important work they are doing.

In honor of Chanukah, a time of joy, I have been delving into the realm of Jewish music.

Archeologists in Poland have just discovered an amazing document, uncovered from beneath rubble left over in what was once the Warsaw Ghetto:

On the 6th of Adar, 5667 (March 20, 1907) Shoshe and Rabbi Avraham Halevi Shapiro welcomed Moshe Aharon, their sixth (and last) child, into the world in the little town of Nesvizh, near Baranovich, in Russia.

Much of childhood is spent in illusion. We grow up imagining things not as they are, but as we wish them to be.

Poised between imminent moral danger and the irrepressible drive to do the right thing, director Menachem Daum and cinematographer Oren Rudavsky have seared together a complex portrait of an Orthodox family who confront their painful past in the new documentary, Hiding and Seeking.

Elie Wiesel encapsulates the problem of Holocaust art by insisting that, "Auschwitz defies imagination and perception; it submits only to memory. It can be communicated by testimony, not fiction."

Over the past 10 years I have attended quite a number of Kosherfests - the annual kosher food show produced by Menachem Lubinsky and his staff at IMC.

Looking For A Jewish DeLayI read with great interest - even fascination - Congressman Tom DeLay's speech to the Knesset ("Be Not Afraid," Jewish Press,...