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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 […]

Andrew Bering as Israel Lichtenstein in “Who Will Write Our History” (Photo/Courtesy Anna Wloch-JFI)
Posted inFilm

Warsaw Ghetto doc screenings on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 24, 2019January 23, 2019
"Otarci" from Leszek Sobocki's "March '68" series, 1968 (Courtesy of Polin Museum)
Posted inHistory

In Warsaw, the chilling tale of 1968 anti-Semitic purges

by Rob Gloster August 24, 2018
A memorial at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Photo/Robinn Magid)
Posted inBay Area, World, Jewish Life, News

Back to the source: genealogy gathering goes to Poland

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 11, 2018July 11, 2018
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
image of men wearing kippahs
Posted inUncategorized

Non-Jews don kippahs after incident at Warsaw pub

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz January 10, 2017March 19, 2018
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
Posted inLocal Voice

Holocaust witnesses hold keys to Polish history, but stories need to be unlocked

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider September 6, 2013September 19, 2025
Posted inWorld

Poland’s Jewish revival includes an openly gay rabbi

by J. Wire Services July 10, 2009April 6, 2017

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