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Israeli cartoon raises Polish protest By ASSOCIATED PRESS A Polish embassy official complained Thursday about a Holocaust cartoon feature in an Israeli newspaper last month, charging it depicted Poles in an unfavorable light. The Ha'aretz daily ran the cartoon before last month's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. It depicted the story of the artist's mother escaping from Poland during World War II. One of the frames pictures Polish passengers on a train, many with drinks in their hands, harassing the young woman. The cartoons were republished in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Thursday and caused an outrage, according to Piotr Trobniak,...

A city worker was under fire last night for penning an essay that uses ethnic slurs to describe Polish-Americans and calls their Brooklyn enclave in Greenpoint "even uglier than the morons who work there." David Langlieb, a 23-year-old Parks Department project manager, defended his work as "satire." "I live in Greenpoint, I'm half Polish, I have nothing but love and fondness for the Polish community," he said. "If you take what's there out of context, of course it's incredibly offensive." But Frank Milewski of the Polish-American Congress, who read Langlieb's entire essay, called it an "an out-and-out insult" and was...

Poland Chief Rabbi: bringing far-right into government fosters racism Updated: 28/May/2006 20:17 OSWIECIM (EJP)--- Poland’s chief rabbi Michael Schudrich said Sunday an attack on him in a Warsaw street was anti-Semitic and placed part of the blame on the entry of a far-right party into Poland’s coalition government. "When you let a right-wing party into the coalition government, that empowers nationalists and those who run around shouting unpleasant things," Schudrich told journalists shortly before he was due to say the Jewish prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, at a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The ceremony will be headed...

29.05.2006, 14.24 Ekaterinburg, 29 May. Sixteen countries have confirmed their attendance in the 5th International Armaments Show in Nizhnyj Tagil. More than 200 foreigners are expected to attend. Some of the countries attending include the Czech Republic, POLAND, China, Switzerland, Venezuela, Sweden, Iran, Bulgaria, and Mozambique. The show will be held from 11 to 15 July, 2006.

By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer Sun May 28, 7:26 AM ET KRAKOW, Poland - Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and sprayed with what appeared to be pepper spray by an unidentified man in downtown Warsaw, but escaped without injuries from what police said may have been an anti-Semitic attack.

Jewish group slams Polish religious rite as anti-Semitic April 27, 2006 WARSAW -- A Jewish rights group on Wednesday protested to the Polish government over an Easter ritual held at a famous Roman Catholic sanctuary in southern Poland, claiming that the ceremony was tainted by anti-Semitism. The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Polish foreign minister Stefan Meller to discipline organizers of the Stations of the Cross ceremony at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a site to be visited by Pope Benedict XVI during his trip to Poland in May. Shimon Samuels, director for International Relations at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks down Nazi...

Not too long ago, David Irving was sentenced to three years in an Austrian jail for claiming that the Holocaust never happened. Although I am usually in favor of harsh sentences even for those people who insist on honking their car horns while driving through tunnels, I was against throwing Irving's butt in the slammer. For some time now, the shmoe has made his living by writing and speaking on the subject. One of his goonier notions is that the concentration camps were erected after the end of World War II to serve as tourist attractions. Irving isn't the only...

Poland marks 63rd anniversary of WWII Warsaw ghetto uprising Canadian Press Radek Sikorski and religious leaders of Poland's Jewish community, flanked by Jewish Second World War veterans, laid flowers and prayed Tuesday to mark the 63rd anniversary of the doomed Warsaw ghetto uprising. Several dozen officials and local residents also lit candles and said the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, at the monument to the heroes of the ghetto struggle during observances held on the eve of the anniversary. On April 19, 1943, hundreds of young Jewish fighters took up arms in the first major act of armed...