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Poland

Israeli reviving first post-Holocaust Polish rabbi group

Thursday, February 28, 2008
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.

Poles drop church membership to save money

Thursday, February 28, 2008
More Roman Catholics in Poland are turning their backs on the faith into which they were baptized as a newborn.

Gov't rethinks alcohol prohibition on trains

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Parliament is considering legalizing the sale of most alcoholic beverages in trains and railway stations ? but not vodka, the daily newspaper Polska reported.

Poland sets ecology example

Thursday, February 28, 2008
A new report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development cites the Polish system of financing environmental protection as a good example for Europe and the world.

New school for blind children

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Money donated after a destructive fire in November at the center for blind children in Laski (near Warsaw) will be spent on the primary school's reconstruction.

Warsaw police go unpunished

Thursday, February 28, 2008
On Feb. 5 at 06:00, someone started banging on the door of a bachelor flat rented by Piotr D. in the Bielany district of Warsaw.

PKP modernizes stations

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Polish Railway Lines (PKP) plans to spend more than 30 mln zloty in 2008 to modernize railway stations in Poland. Among many changes the passengers will notice will be video-monitor security systems at 19 stations, including Opole, Poznan, Lodz, Torun and JeleniaGora.

City guards vow to pursue truants

Thursday, February 21, 2008
New laws proposed by the Ministry of Education will enable city guards (municipal police) to question young people suspected of truancy and report them to school authorities.

Poland wants training school for snipers

Thursday, February 21, 2008
A center for marksmanship training, the first in Poland, is opening in Wedrzyn (Lubuskie, northwest Poland).

What happened at Nangar Khel village?

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Seven Polish soldiers accused of a massacre in the Afghan village of Nangar Khel have been ordered to remain in pre-trial detention for another three months.
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