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• Bolstering European Jewish volunteers

  December 23, 2004 10:00am

  The Jewish community of Eastern Europe got a shot in the arm as Jewish volunteers and professionals gathered in Poland for the first Pan-European Conference for Jewish Community Volunteers.

• Krakow Jews mark 700 years

  December 16, 2004 10:00am

  Krakow’s Jews celebrated 700 years of Jewish life in the Polish city, though some doubted the community’s future longevity.

• Poland selects new chief rabbi

  December 13, 2004 10:00am

  The Polish Jewish community has turned to an American in selecting its new spiritual leader, filling a post left empty since 1999.

• Menorahs made in ex-Communist suburb

  November 29, 2004 10:00am

  The Polish model suburb of Nowa Huta was built under a Communist philosophy of atheism. Now it houses a workshop that manufactures menorahs, popular among Poles and tourists alike.

• Ukrainian city gets center

  November 3, 2004 10:00am

  Jews in the Ukrainian city of Zaparozhye are getting a new community center with the help of foreign donors. The complex represents new life for the community and its funders hope it will help unite the city’s Jews.

• Poles flock to exhibit on Jewish life

  October 31, 2004 9:00am

  A museum exhibit highlights the rich Jewish history of the Polish city of Czestochowa as the nation’s Jewish past becomes a popular focus for curious Poles.

• Krakow gets three sukkahs

  October 4, 2004 9:00am

  Three sukkahs in Krakow join a host of physical symbols, including a Torah and a mikvah, that remind Poles and tourists alike of the city’s proud’s Jewish past.

• The future of a Polish city’s Jewish past

  May 19, 2004 9:00am

  Messages have been pouring in from Jews with family ties to Czestochowa, Poland ever since some members of the Czestochowa Diaspora gathered in their native city for a three-day conference called Coexistence, Holocaust, Memory.

• Jewish past seen via Polish present

  May 10, 2004 9:00am

  A new museum in Krakow hopes to fill a void in Jewish cultural sites by looking beneath the surface of contemporary Polish cities and town to find their Jewish past.

• Satmars’ hometown a shambles

  March 2, 2004 10:00am

  The leader of a Romanian Jewish community of about 90 people protects the last vestiges of a once-vibrant Jewish life.