In the summer of 1992, I walked through the streets of Kielce, Poland. I stopped elderly residents to ask about a massacre that had happened forty-six years earlier. No one would talk to me about...
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Jewish Poles who will Amaze You
A previous post described the People2People project which highlights notable Polish Jews and Jews of Polish heritage, from both the present and the past. I promised that you’d be enthralled...
Poland and the Jews: The People2People Project
When one thinks about Jews and Poland the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t Jazz, or high fashion, or burlesque etc. A new and innovative project called People2People is seeking to...
My Rabbi Met the Emir of Qatar & All I Got Was a T-Shirt; Alex Jones Jew-Baits, & Other Newbits
The Jerusalem Post reports that several American Jewish leaders were invited to meet with the Emir of Qatar in September 2017. Several inquired with the Israeli Ambassador to the USA on whether they...
Sarsour Assures Jews Polish Mass Murder Of Jews Not Systemic
“I am not going to sit here and be dictated to by those who are probably white, male, and non-Muslim about what I should be fighting.” New York, February 6 – A leading Muslim...
A Tale of Two Jew Pictorials
This week, the Jewish world was regaled with two Jew-themed pictorials. The first, which received a lot of attention, features Yoel Weisshaus, a Shtreimel toting, peyos wearing, honest to God Hassid...
Limud Polska: It’s No Joke
(Part one of several blogs on my recent return to Poland after an 11 year absence.) The snow began falling just as the busses were unloading for the 5th Annual Limud conference in Poland. (They...
Yom Hashoah: From the Depths of our Souls
Survivors are disappearing. We are left with stories, fragments, articles, films, interviews. But nothing can capture the enormity of what happened between 1939-1945. Nothing. After spending years in...