The chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, came to Warsaw last week and met Poland’s Jewish community at the Nozyk synagogue. It was the first visit of the chief rabbi to Poland.
Read moreA center for marksmanship training, the first in Poland, is opening in Wedrzyn (Lubuskie, northwest Poland).
Read moreDiplomatic outposts in Warsaw are losing their homes. The Serbian Embassy just finished moving out, and the embassies of Iran and Finland face uncertain futures. But the most notable move may involve the U.S. Embassy.
Read moreRozbrat is the oldest squat in Poland. It was founded 14 years ago by groups of the Poznan freedom movement looking for their own place of safety.
Read moreBochnia is famous for its salt mine. The city allows visitors to witness how miners work to excavate salt and learn the history of salt mining.
Read moreTheologians from outside Poznan’s Adam Mickiewicz University will analyze the writings of an influential Roman Catholic priest and Mickiewicz faculty member who left the church without explanation last month.
Read moreRecent surveys by the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning might be considered shocking. More than 30,000 Polish women had an abortion in England last year, 30 percent more than the previous year.
Read moreA Polish rocket in space? A group of Polish deputies wants to create a National Space Agency that would build a rocket and the first Polish satellite.
Read moreTogether with the new base the company also is opening four new routes from Poznan – to Oslo, Norway; Malmo, Sweden; Doncaster, England, and Glasgow, Scotland. Until today (Jan. 31) one could fly from Poznan with Wizzair only to Dortmund, Germany, and to London.
Read moreAt a festival of chilled vibes and unity, Poland’s leading homegrown reggae, ska and dub bands were jammin’ till the break of dawn through the last weekend of January. Held for the 18th consecutive year, the two-day Afryka Reggae Festival in Torn was organized this year to support Polish humanitarian action in Sudan.
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