Warsaw

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

The Ghetto Fighters’ House brings rare archival artifacts and stories to Givatayim for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, linking past resilience to today’s changing world.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.
The Maccabi Krakow ice hockey team in full flow during a game in 1934.

When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy

From soccer to fencing, Jewish athletes once dominated Polish sports, and now their story is being told in Ramat Gan.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
Tombstones at the Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw, Poland.

Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired after clashing with state-funded heritage group

Jewish director alleges that the current contract between the foundation and the Jewish community board is “abusive,” limiting the influence of local Jews over projects in their own cemetery.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
The Israeli flag waves as lights are lit on the Hanukkah candelabrum during a ceremony of the Jewish Hanukkah festival of lights at Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Germany December 14, 2025.

New York, Berlin, London ramp up Hanukkah security after Bondi Beach shootings

Berlin police said they were ramping up measures around the German capital's Brandenburg Gate, where a large electric menorah is being lit to mark the first night of Hanukkah.

|ByREUTERS

Rivlin mourns loss of final fighter from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Simcha (Kazik) Rotem, may his memory be a blessing.

DECEMBER 22, 2018ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
The last fighter from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Simcha (Kazik) Rotem.

Polish leaders hold joint march with far right groups

Some marchers in Warsaw chanted: "Away with the EU" but there was no sign of white supremacist banners visible at last year's march.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018ByREUTERS
Flag of Poland, variant polish coat of arms.

Demise of two Jewish Agency, WZO stalwarts

Elizer Sheffer and Matityahu Drobles both passed away at age 85 and 87, respectively.

OCTOBER 22, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Yahrtzeit candle [Illustratvie]

Warsaw prosecutor won't investigate antisemitic letter

The prosecutor's office didn't even provide any reasons for the inactivity.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018ByJTA
THE WARSAW Uprising Monument at Krasinski Square, in Warsaw, Poland.

Are Polish-Israeli ties thawing?

Israel and Poland have strong diplomatic ties and Warsaw often stands in solidarity with the Jewish state at the United Nations.

AUGUST 13, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Poland's Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz speaks during an interview in Warsaw, Poland, 2018

Israeli Warsaw rising: How Israelis began living, and loving, Warsaw

Despite the offensive Polish Holocaust law, Israelis living in Warsaw seek opportunity – and understanding.

JULY 25, 2018ByORIT ARFA
The writer, Orit Arfa, at the Nozyk Synagogue

A voice from the Warsaw Ghetto: The life of cantor Gershon Sirota

The uprising began 75 years ago.

JUNE 23, 2018ByDAVID OLIVESTONE
SS SOLDIERS patrol Nowolipie Street in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising

When Roz met Jake in Haifa

I spoke to Roz about Jack’s life and their years together.

MAY 2, 2018ByELI KAVON
Robert Indiana's Love sculpture at the entrance of the Israel Museum

Aiming to defuse crisis, Polish delegation set for Holocaust law talks in Israel

Israeli-Polish ties nose-dived after the parliament in Warsaw passed legislation last month that made it illegal to say that the Polish nation or state was complicit in the Holocaust.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018ByHERB KEINON
THE PERIMETER fence of Auschwitz II-Birkenau is enveloped in a thick evening fog during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, near Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

Une visite à Yad Mordekhai

L’histoire des persécutions juives est-elle condamnée à se répéter ?

FEBRUARY 4, 2018ByBERNARD EDINGER
Statue de Mordekhai Anilevitz