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JCC Krakow director Jonathan Ornstein shows off the center's preschool books. (Photo/Gunda Trepp)
Posted inLocal Voice

Up close and personal with Poland’s Jewish revival

Susan Moldaw by Susan Moldaw September 9, 2019September 9, 2019

Holocaust survivor Zofia Radzikowski lights Shabbat candles at the JCC in Krakow, Poland. I’m seated with 20 members of my synagogue, along with Krakow community members and other visitors. Non-Jewish […]

Rabbi Michael Schudrich, chief rabbi of Poland, shows his V for victory after the 55-mile bike "Ride for The Living" bike ride from Auschwitz to Krakow. (Photo/Rob Gloster)
Posted inSports

Celebrating life on the ride from Auschwitz to Krakow

by Rob Gloster June 29, 2018July 5, 2018
Michael Rubenfeld, one of the four co-founders of Festivalt, which runs concurrently with the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival (Photo/Sharon Eshel Gloster)
Posted inCulture

Krakow diary, day 2: An edgier take on Jewish life in contemporary Poland

by Rob Gloster June 28, 2018June 29, 2018
A Krakow Jewish Culture Festival attendee hamming it up at a Malo Orkiestra concert, June 25 (Photo/Michal Ramus)
Posted inCulture

Krakow diary, day 1: Listening to klezmer with 30,000 of my closest friends

by Rob Gloster June 27, 2018June 28, 2018
Polish President Andrzej Duda at the NATO Multinational Corps Northeast headquarters in Szczecin, Poland, Nov. 28, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Poland’s president visits Krakow JCC amid tensions over Holocaust law

by JTA February 28, 2018March 19, 2018
Ohlone leader Corinna Gould at a protest of construction on top of a shellmound in Berkeley, April 9, 2016 (Photo/Flickr-Wendy Kenin CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

How the struggle of the Ohlone relates to our Jewish past

Matthew Leber by Matthew Leber October 27, 2017November 1, 2017
Participants on the YAD trip to Poland dine at the Warsaw JCC. (Photo/Oleska Gro)
Posted inJewish Life

‘Unexpected’ past and present on young adult trip to Poland

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett August 18, 2017August 28, 2017
Some 20,000 visitors attended the closing event of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, July 1, 2017. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inLocal Voice

Trip to Poland unexpectedly sparked pride in my Jewish identity

Mark Reisbaum by Mark Reisbaum August 2, 2017August 7, 2017
Tomasz Cebulski explains Krakow's Temple Synagogue to Bay Area visitors. /Sue Fishkoff
Posted inWorld, Jewish Life

Guarding Poland’s Jewish past, building its future: Jews and non-Jews join in historic project

by Sue Fishkoff November 14, 2014October 25, 2019

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