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Talks between Jeremy Corbyn and the Jewish Museum in London on a speech by the leader of the British Labour Party have broken down. The party, beset by allegations of anti-Semitism, approached the Jewish Museum with a plan to host a speech on the issue, the London-based Jewish Chronicle first reported on Thursday. Corbyn also has been fighting accusations of harboring anti-Semitic sentiments. But on Friday the Chronicle reported the speech was off following a disagreement over who would be invited to attend. Last month, the party’s ruling body and leadership endorsed a code of conduct that is based on...

Museum of Polish Jews to open in Warsaw in 2009-10 Deutsche Presse Agentur Published: Monday September 11, 2006 Warsaw- Construction on the long-awaited Museum of the History of Polish Jews will begin in the Polish capital Warsaw next fall with its doors expected to open within three years. Warsaw's chief architect Michal Borowski was quoted Monday with a confirmation that work on the long-awaited multi-million dollar, multi-media facility would finally begin after more than a decade of preparation. Construction will begin in an area of the city that was the thriving centre of Jewish life prior to the Second World...

Sometimes... the most important quality an architect can possess is optimism. For example, it took 12 years for the Jewish Museum I designed in Berlin to finally open to the public. A few hours later it had to close. The date: Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. That jarring confluence of events not only predated but also presaged my role in rebuilding ground zero. And the memories of what we went through in Berlin give me confidence that we will succeed in New York as well. When I won the museum competition, Berliners were divided between those who felt my design would...