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Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by Nazis

Poland returned 91 religious and ceremonial artifacts to the Greek government at a ceremony in Warsaw on Wednesday. Among them were Torah scrolls, a Torah mantle and silver finials.

A synagogue napkin made from satin, cotton and metal tassels is among the items being returned from Poland to Greece.
Dariusz Stola receives the appointment as the Museum of the History of Polish Jews' director from Marta Cienkowska, the Polish minister of culture and national heritage, in February 2026.

Poland’s Jewish museum director returns, seven years after being pushed out by nationalist politics

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

The Maccabi Krakow ice hockey team in full flow during a game in 1934.

When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy


Is Warsaw Jewish museum director being replaced for criticized Polish government?

Stola criticized a controversial law passed last year in Poland that makes it illegal to blame the Polish nation for Nazi crimes.

President Reuven Rivlin visits newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw October 28, 2014.

When Warsaw was Jewish, Poles still celebrated antisemitism

A reporter’s notebook.

The Jewish Community Center that was two doors down from my grandmother's apartment

Gantz to speak at Munich conference, Netanyahu cancels participation

Iran was at the center of the Warsaw conference last week and is the focus of the annual Munich Security Conference this week.

Benny Gantz, chairman of the Israel Resilience Party

Netanyahu warns Arab countries not to reject Trump peace plan - report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he meets with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019

Regional realignment

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to engage with the Americans since the moving of the US Embassy to Jerusalem last year says it all.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Waraw Conference on February 14, 2019

After Warsaw summit, Arabs launch ‘anti-normalization’ campaign

The campaign, launched on Saturday on Twitter, is being waged under the hashtag “Normalization is Treason.”

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) greets Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifah before a working lunch at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, on February 14, 2019

Polish crisis likely over after Israeli clarification of Netanyahu comment

"Poles cooperated with the Germans" during the Holocaust, Netanyahu said.

Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in New York on September 26, 2018.

Netanyahu: Israeli-Arab ties advance, but full peace unattainable now

Arab foregin ministers agreed that Israel had a right “to defend itself against Iranian aggression,” and held that it poses an existential threat, even without nuclear weapons, he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he meets with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019

Jared Kushner on Middle East peace plan: I'm optimistic

US President Donald Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Warsaw ministerial conference on February 14, 2019

Pence calls on EU to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal

Pence accuses EU of setting up a scheme "to break American sanctions against Iran's murderous revolutionary regime."

US Vice President Mike Pence gives a speech during the conference on peace and security in the Middle East in Warsaw, on February 14, 2019