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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Once unthinkable, a Jewish community thrives in Poland


Well, there is a bar mitzvah in my shul next week. The yearly Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow is just around the corner. Midrasz, the Jewish magazine, comes to my mailbox regularly late. My younger son graduated from the Jewish school. My older son was press spokesman of the Warsaw kehilla for some time. The invitation for the Israeli Independence Day reception just came in.

Why had I once been so sure that it was over? Maybe it was loneliness.

Read more:http://jta.org/news/article/2010/01/06/1010037/op-ed-once-unthinkable-a-jewish-community-thrives-in-poland