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Prayer for Rosh Hashanah.

27 September 2017

In Rosh Hashana begins time for self-reflection. In synagogues Ec Chaim and Nożyk’s situated in Warsaw and in Wroclaw’s Synagogue a prayer by Michael Schudrich Chief Rabbi of Poland was read, which prompted us to reflect on how we address one another. While hate speech is all-present...

Message by Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission, to the Jewish Community in Europe on the occasion of Rosh Hashana

19 September 2017

Have a good and sweet year 5778!

18 September 2017

An open letter from twelve Jewish organizations in Poland

Last Wednesday, Rabbis Szalom Dow Ber Stambler and Eliezer Gurary, together with Mr. Artur Hofman and Mr. Jonny Daniels, met with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president of the ruling Law and Justice party, as invited “representatives of Poland’s Jewish community.” According to Daniels, “It was...

Volunteers clean the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street

An international group of volunteers will be cleaning Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street for over a week. Join them! The works will finish by the 24th of August and will be carried out on every week day, except Shabbat from 10:00 to 16:00, and of Friday between 9:00 and 13:00.Cultural Heritage...

claims for the WWII reparations – controversial poster

The public debate in Poland has recently focused on the country’s claims for the WWII reparations from Germany. One of the materials promoting the case was a poster highlighted on Twitter of TV Republika. The poster’s graphic design is based on the sign: „Arbeit macht frei” located over the...

Summer program

Summer is the time when children cannot get bored. While some of them joined summer camps in the United States and returned home happy and excited, the others stayed in the city and participated in our summer school program. This year, the educational program focused on social responsibility...

Letter to Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński

As a result of latest events that took place in Poland, the Jewish Community wrote a letter to Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński. The full text is below. August 4, 2017, Warsaw Mr. Jarosław Kaczyński Chairman of Law and Justice Dear Mr. Chairman, We would like to express our concern regarding the...

Rabbi Moshe Bloom and Rebbetzin Chava Bloom

After four years in Warsaw the Bloom family – Rabbi Moshe Bloom and Rebbetzin Chava Bloom with children went back to Eretz Israel. We are very grateful for everything they did for the Jewish Community of Warsaw. We wish them good luck! Rabbi Moshe Bloom was born in 1984 in Israel. He studied in...