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Rabbi Dawid Szychowski telling journalists about the Festival of Tranquility that he launched in Lodz, Poland on June 8, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Shvei Israel)

Polish city of Lodz has 1st Jewish festival in decades

The event was organized by a rabbi whose job is to bring back to the fold of Judaism descendants of traumatized Holocaust survivors.

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 12, 2019 4:22 pm

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Effigy of late Polish Jewish communist hung on gallows at former Lodz Ghetto

“I did it, I hung a Jew,” an activist who says he is working to “liberate Poland from American Jews’ occupation” reportedly shouted.

May 1, 2019 5:34 pm

Bloody prayer shawl from Yom Kippur pogrom found in former Lodz ghetto

The stained tallit collar was found under the floor or a former cinema.

September 21, 2018 10:51 am

Top Polish diplomat seeks removal of Yad Vashem text about ‘Polish police’ under Nazis

March 15, 2018 4:09 pm

European Union allocates $1.5 million to expand Lodz train station museum

August 29, 2016 2:19 pm

Demonstration by Polish soccer fans features burning Jews in effigy

August 29, 2016 1:35 pm

Polish adman creates buzz with his pro-Jewish graffiti

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 15, 2016 5:27 pm

Polish store employees indicted for anti-Semitic merchandise

By Katarzyna Markusz December 30, 2012 4:40 pm

Swastikas painted on Polish synagogue

By Katarzyna Markusz July 5, 2012 10:32 am

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Looted art is a Holocaust story

By JTA Mailman February 8, 2010 12:57 am

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