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Silicon Valley's link to Warsaw's stunning $200m history museum of Polish-Jewish life
I recently visited the just-opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, a stunning $200m project, largely financed by the Warsaw regional and national governments, but with very strong support from the Bay Area's most impressive philanthropist: Tad Taube.
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Collected Department Releases: The Proliferation Security Initiative: A Global Cooperative Effort
Launched in Krakow, Poland in May 2003, the Proliferation Security Initiative is a global framework of states that commit to disrupt transfers of weapons of mass destruction , their delivery systems, and related items to and from states and non-state actors of proliferation concern.
Dr. Jerry Shapiro to Present RepliCel Data to European Academy of...
RepliCel Life Sciences Inc. reports that one of its founders, Dr. Jerry Shapiro, MD, FRCPC, will be presenting RepliCel's Phase I safety data and the concept of using dermal sheath cup cells for hair growth at the 10th European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Spring Symposium in Cracow, Poland on May 25th at 12:00 PM local time.
How a very British oven plans on reinventing itself in China
The AGA Rangemaster may be a quintessentially British cooker, but demand has slumped amid the UK's recession.
SPOTLIGHT: Graduating veteran made mark
Mat Jasieniecki readily admits that after he graduated from high school, he partied a bit too much, and after a while his grandparents told him to shape up.
Low-Cost Airline Mulls Israel-to-Auschwitz Flight
The low-cost airline Ryanair announced it was considering flying a route from Tel Aviv to Krakow, the southern Polish city situated near the former Auschwitz death camp.
Baku Sees Stronger Push For Karabakh Peace After Azeri Vote
International efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict should intensify after a presidential election in Azerbaijan due this fall, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said during a visit to Moscow on Tuesday.
Unsound 2013 announces first names
Polish festival Unsound has revealed first details of its 2013 edition, which will take place October 13th through 20th in Krakow.
Cracow host meeting of Eastern Partnership foreign ministers
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Reflections On "Never Forget To Lie"
Since the FRONTLINE premiere of Never Forget To Lie , filmmaker Marian Marzynski has been flooded with letters from viewers - some of whom are Holocaust survivors themselves - looking to share their thoughts and reflections on the film.
Makej unofficially excluded from EU's sanction list?
Polish embassy in Minsk reports about that. The meeting, in which the Minsters of the Visegrad group countries will also participate, will take place on 17-18 May in Krakow.
Kozhara to meet with colleagues from Visegrad Group
Foreign minister of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara will visit Krakow, Poland on May 17 to participate in a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Visegrad Four, acting director of the FM press service Yevhen Perebyinis told a briefing.
In search of Schindler's children: An emotional journey to Poland
Jessica Mellor heads to Poland in a trip to mark the 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List The air is still around Auschwitz-Birkenau. Despite the groups of tourists who are scattered about its vast area there is a sort of respectful silence usually reserved for funerals.
Euroscepticism and "the British model"
An annual forum of experts from Poland and Great Britain took place last week in Cracow.
Krakow Synagogue Now 'Mezcal' Night Club
To the dismay of guardians of Jewish heritage in Poland, a former Krakow beit midrash, or Jewish house of prayer and study, reopened as a disco this past weekend.
Graduating Army veteran made a mark
Mat Jasieniecki readily admits that after he graduated from high school, he partied a bit too much, and after a while his grandparents told him to shape up.
Deacon Ken Kulinowski: Polish-American deacon pens book defending Pius XII
Deacon Ken Kulinowski was born in Buffalo, N.Y., just 22 days after the Nazis invaded Poland.
Cleveland: Ground zero for the housing bubble
If houses go to heaven, then Classen Avenue, in the Cleveland neighborhood of Slavic Village, has been the scene of a mass Rapture.
Report: Ancient Cracow Synagogue to Become a Disco
The Jewish community in Cracow is outraged at the prospect that the synagogue and beit midrash in the center of the the Polish city's Jewish Quarter is going to become a discotheque, according to a Sunday story in the Ma'ariv daily.
Lego hand mixer: You bet it blends
Fans of the bricks have limitless passion. But beyond creating cool dioramas , Lego modelers truly impress when they make functional tools .