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Warsaw Fires Architect Of Planned Art Museum

AP | Posted 05.18.2012

WARSAW, Poland — Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland's capital, throwing the w...

Vandals Deface Holocaust Monument

AP/The Huffington Post | By VANESSA GERA | Posted 11.02.2011

WARSAW, Poland (Associated Press) -- Vandals desecrated a monument marking the spot in Poland where hundreds of Jews were burned alive during World Wa...

Poland's Winter Death Toll Mounts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WARSAW, Poland — Police say 200 people have frozen to death in Poland this winter. Most victims were either homeless or under the influence of ...

Africa's Youths United Can Never be Defeated

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Alemayehu G. Mariam

Mubarak, Irhal! A specter is haunting Africa and the Middle East - the specter of an awesome army of youths on the move, in revolt, marching for free...

Pass the John Tyner Bill: Get Government Off Our Backs and Out of Our Buttocks

Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Jay Michaelson

Air travelers will soon be required to have a naked image of themselves beamed to a security agent. Israelis don't do this, Europeans doesn't do this -- why are we being asked to do it?

Sara May Bikini PHOTOS: Polish Pop Singer Katarzyna Szczolek Uses Hot Shots For Warsaw Election Campaign

Posted 05.25.2011

A Polish singer says she is determined to break out of pop music and into local politics -- so much so that she's taken to distributing scintillating ...

The media's slander of Poland: Ignorance, lazy editing, or malicious libel?

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Storozynski

The New York-born Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, says, "Accusing Poles of participation in the Holocaust is a sin." Yet on a regular basis...

Former Nazi Death Camp Ravaged By Fire

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011

WARSAW, Poland — A fire swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, destroying more than half the building and possibly 1...

Poland Orders Mossad Spy Suspect Extradited

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011

WARSAW, Poland — An Israeli man suspected of involvement in the slaying of a Hamas operative will be extradited to Germany, a Polish court ruled...

Why Obama Should Attend President Lech Kaczynski's Funeral

Dominika Jaworski | Posted 05.25.2011

Dominika Jaworski

Maintaining strong diplomatic relations and friendship in a time of profound national grief with Poland can be accomplished easily: President Obama should attend President Kaczynski's funeral.

Poland Flooding: 9 Dead As Warsaw Officials Fight Flood (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Flooding in Poland continues to be an issue, just three days after thousands were forced to evacuate their homes and the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial s...

Polish Police Recover 11 Tons Of Stolen US Blood Plasma

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011

WARSAW, Poland — Polish police recovered 11 tons of human blood plasma that had been stolen from a U.S. company and was on its way to Austria, o...

Last surviving leader of Warsaw ghetto uprising laid to rest

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warsaw, Poland, Home News

Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Jewish leaders and hundreds of Poles on Friday bid farewell to Marek Edelman, who was the last surviving leader of ...

Swedish man suspected in Auschwitz sign theft

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warsaw, Sweden, Home News

WARSAW - A still unidentified resident of Sweden is suspected of being the middle man in the brazen theft of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei ("Work Set...

Motive and mastermind still unclear in theft of Auschwitz sign

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warsaw, Sweden, Home News

WARSAW - A still unidentified resident of Sweden is suspected of being the middle man in the brazen theft of the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei ("Work Set...

Travel as Therapy, Pt 2: 10 Ways to Heal the Soul & Expand the Mind

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Ali Binazir

Your brain is supremely skilled at filtering out the familiar and telling you only about what matters - namely, change. Travel bypasses that filter and awakens your senses by confronting you with the unfamiliar.

Travel as Therapy, Pt 1: 10 Ways to Heal the Soul & Expand the Mind

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Ali Binazir

Remember, you're only traveling because you've got time on your hands. So relax, take a look around you, and know that what you call a problem now will be a funny story later.

But is it Anti-Semitic?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

There is nothing wrong with criticizing Israeli policies. But those who choose to mis-characterize Israel's self-defense as "Nazi" are factually and historically wrong and morally repugnant.

Poland Wants To Ban Che Guevara Image

The Telegraph | Matthew Day | Posted 05.25.2011

Poland's equality minister, Elzbieta Radziszewska, wants to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda so t...

Why We Remember

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Bernard-Henri Lévy

I call for another Conference, truly antiracist, truly faithful to the ideals of the United Nations. Let's forget about Durban II. Let's prepare for Geneva III.

Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...