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Not for the first time, journalist and Krakow Post contributor Nissan Tzur has stirred up strong emotions with his reporting.
Read moreNot for the first time, journalist and Krakow Post contributor Nissan Tzur has stirred up strong emotions with his reporting.
Read moreWhen it was announced that four Polish locations would host matches during the Euro 2012 football championship, Cracovians were disappointed
Read moreKrakow politician Jarosław Gowin was elected as one of 14 members of parliament for the Krakow constituency in 2007, and again four years later. He was appointed Minister of Justice by Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2011 and looked to be on the path…
Read moreA ruling from Poland’s Constitutional Court effectively banning kosher and halal ritual slaughter came into effect in January this year. Aware that the government was planning legislation that would overturn the ban, the Jewish community in Krakow…
Read moreThe end of June brings the 23rd Krakow Jewish Culture Festival to the streets of Kazimierz. Running from June 28 to July 7, the world-famous festival is made up of a series of events dedicated to Jewish culture and tradition…
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You’d be forgiven for not knowing that Krakow has an Islamic Centre. Tucked away on a side street north of
Read moreKrakow’s Montelupich Prison has been the scene of some of the darkest moments in the city’s recent history. British and Soviet spies, anti-Communist activists, high ranking Nazis and the victims of Nazi oppression have all found themselves behind its walls…
Read moreThe spectre of violent political extremism intruded into Krakow’s quiet, academic world in November when Polish security services announced they had arrested a chemistry lecturer who had been planning to detonate a massive bomb outside the country’s parliament…
Read moreTwenty three years after the fall of Communism, Poland still refuses to do what it promised to do. The government of Poland will not pass a restitution law that would either return private property or compensate Jews and their heirs for assets seized…
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In 2003 Jewish community leaders in Poland approached the Polish prison service with a radical idea – using inmates to preserve and maintain the country’s many neglected Jewish cemeteries and monuments. This was the beginning of the Tikkun Project…
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