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They spent their childhoods in the rich, layered Jewish life of prewar Poland, then survived Hitler's mission to wipe out European Jewry in the ghettos and gas chambers of occupied Europe. Now, men such as Tad Taube, Sigmund Rolat and Severyn Ashkenazy have returned to Poland as philanthropists — after making fortunes in the United States — to nurture a grass-roots revival of Jewish life in their homeland. And while some Jews in America and elsewhere cannot comprehend why the philanthropists choose to return to a land where their ancestors suffered such pain and loss, members of Poland's Jewish community...

Man who attacked Poland's chief rabbi sentenced By ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW A court gave a two-year suspended sentence Friday to a man who admitted attacking and insulting Poland's chief rabbi on a Warsaw street earlier this year. The man was convicted of using violence and racially motivated hate speech, but was spared the maximum punishment of five years in prison, a court spokeswoman told The Associated Press. During the trial Friday, the man admitted that he provoked the incident by shouting "Poland for the Poles" at Rabbi Michael Schudrich and other Orthodox Jews, the news agency PAP reported.

<p>WARSAW - Polish police have detained a man over last month’s attack on the country’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, which sparked concerns among Jewish leaders and diplomats of rising xenophobia in Poland.</p> <p>“We have detained a young man who is responsible for this act,” police spokesman Zbigniew Matwiej said on Wednesday. He declined to give further details.</p>

Poland's chief rabbi: Polish government 'is not bigoted' 20.06.2006 Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich has written a letter to the New York Times in response to its article accusing the new Polish government of bigotry. One of the recent editorials in the New York Times expressed concern about recent developments in Poland. Report by Danusia Szafraniec in New York Commenting on the Equality March by sexual minority held in Warsaw on June 10 the newspaper calls this country’s government ‘bigoted’, says that Poland seems intent on violating human rights of minorities and mentions the anti-Semitic attack against Poland’s chief rabbi...