Poland

Tel Aviv nightlife to a rooftop proposal: A modern love story

A backgammon lesson in a Tel Aviv bar sparked a romance that spanned continents and eight years, ending in a heartfelt rooftop proposal.

Tzvi-Bar & Lexi: A trajectory.
World leaders gather during a charter announcement for US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026

Poland, Italy, decline Board of Peace invitation, cite doubts, constitutional barrier

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.

Proportion of Poles who dislike Jews rises to 40%, lowest pro-Jewish sentiment since 2006

Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.

Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive


Hidden-tunnel letter rekindles hunt for Poland’s fabled Nazi ‘Gold Train’

The “gold train” allegedly left Breslau in 1945 with treasures—possibly Amber Room panels—then vanished into the Riese tunnels beneath the Owl Mountains as Soviet forces advanced.

 Historic train tunnels in Poland.

Woman beheaded during axe attack at Warsaw University, Polish media reports

Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that a woman's severed head and an axe had been found at the university.

Polish police secure an area at the Warsaw University campus after an attack with an axe, in Warsaw, Poland, May 7, 2025

No easy road: Avdija, Israel gear up for tricky EuroBasket challenge in Poland

On paper, Israel should be able to get through the group. However, each team that it will face poses its own challenges.

 ISRAEL STAR Deni Avdija (left) speaks with National Team coach Ariel Beit Halachmi during a recent practice ahead of this summer’s EuroBasket tournament.

Eurasian silver and slavery: The unexpected rise and fall of the Piast dynasty

The fatal liability of lacking reliable prior networks revealed itself in the rapid collapse of the first Polish state.

 Marcinkowo Górne, Poland, September 20 2022. Monument of Leszek the White, prince of Masovia and Kujawy from the Piast dynasty, murdered in Gąsawa massacre, by order of duke of Pomerania in year 1227.

'Sons and Daughters': The last great Yiddish novel now available in English - review

An English translation by Rose Waldman of Chaim Grade’s final, unfinished work has been published.

 JEWISH WEDDING in a Russian shtetl, complete with klezmer band; painting by Isaak Asknaziy, 1893.

Grapevine: Remembrance

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Rain and ashes: 2025 March of the Living commemorates Holocaust, hostages

President Isaac Herzog told the gathered dignitaries that “While we are here, the souls of dozens of Jews still thirst for water and freedom.”

 A handwritten sign in Hebrew on the train tracks to Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025. The sign reads "Waiting for all 59 hostages, now!"

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Jewish Holocaust story is pushed to the margins - opinion

Eighty years after the Holocaust, the memory of Jewish suffering at Auschwitz is increasingly shaped by controlled narratives, highlighting the need to preserve the truth of the atrocity.

 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz.

Main lesson of Holocaust is to fight fanatical regimes that threaten whole world, Netanyahu says

Netanyahu arrived late to the ceremony -- reportedly due to security issues, but top security officials were already present at site.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 23, 2025

'Among Neighbors': A filmmaker’s journey to uncover a forgotten Holocaust legacy

Filmmaker Yoav Potash arrived in Poland to document a modest ceremony in a forgotten town, but left with a profound mystery that would take a decade to unravel.

 FILMMAKER YOAV POTASH directs a drone camera while filming at the site of the Treblinka death camp for ‘Among Neighbors.’