Orthodox Jewish Wedding Of Shalom Rokeach And Hannah Batya Penet Attracts 25,000 Guests (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
If you thought it was tough to organize a couple hundred guests at your wedding, imagine if 25,000 well-wishers decided to drop by. A wedding between two members of one…
Irena Sendler-Polish Woman Who Saved 2,500 Jewish Children
Huff Post: WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically…
New ‘Muslim-friendly’ nail polish a surprise hit
PRZEMYSL: Poland, for Zaida Saleh, like for many observant Muslim women, manicures have long posed a religious problem. With prayers five times a day, and the pre-prayer ritual of “wudhu”…
54 countries aided CIA in renditions
Report highlights extent of global programme in US war on terror By Mick O’Reilly Senior Associate Editor GULF NEWS Dubai: Some were picked up as they travelled through airports, others…
CIA’s secret prison: ‘Poland dragging out investigation’
A Polish investigation into secret CIA jails is being suppressed because it will embarrass the top echelon of the country’s government, lawyers of two men held illegally in one of…
Polish ritual slaughter illegal, court rules
Poland’s top court has ruled that the religious slaughter of animals is illegal, weeks before an EU law allowing the practice takes effect. The Constitutional Tribunal said it was against…
Polish Court Nixes Muslim And Jewish Ritual Animal Slaughter
HUFFPOST RELIGION WARSAW, Poland — A top court in Poland said Tuesday that the ritual slaughter of animals by religious groups, including Jews and Muslims, violates the country’s constitution and…
Advantage Through Technology on the Modern Battlefield
Source: Warsaw Voice: “If you want peace, prepare for war”—this ancient maxim is still relevant today. Even though we hope wars will bypass us, for this to happen we have…
Polish Hardware on Mars
Source: The Warsaw Voice: NASA’s Curiosity rover, which successfully landed on Mars Aug. 6, is fitted with infrared detectors developed and manufactured by Poland’s Vigo System company. The Curiosity mission…
Germany and Poland: EU needs more democracy
Credit: The Local “We’ve been looking at how we can bring back confidence in the European Union,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Warsaw late on Monday as he…
Romney the dunce
The Daily Star Lebanon Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is seen on board his charter plane in Tel Aviv, Israel as he travels to Poland, Monday,…
The Catholic Church’s Fading Influence in Poland
Credit: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl DPA Twenty years ago, the Catholic Church played a major role in the fall of communism in Poland. Today, with the country changing rapidly, the…
Young Poles and Ukrainians Have High Hopes for Euro 2012
Credit:Spiegel-Germany. Euro 2012 Hosts: The Dreams of Young Poles and Ukrainians As the 2012 European Football Championship kicks off, all eyes are on the event’s co-hosts, Poland and Ukraine. It’s…
Barack Obama under pressure to apologise to Poland over ‘death camps’ gaffe
President Barack Obama is under growing pressure to apologise to Poland after the country’s prime minister publicly rebuked him for making reference to “Polish death camps” in the Second World…
10 worst wedding proposals
Credit: ET Every day, thousands of men around the world, and some daring women, pop the question to their significant others. Whether it’s the party who is thinking up creative…
Poland’s Vulnerability Amid Missile Diplomacy
Credit: Stratfor: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L), German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (C) and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in Berlin on March 21 Polish Foreign…
In Poland, embracing Europe but not the euro
Washington Post: By Michael Birnbaum: WARSAW — Here in Poland, where dreary communist-style apartment blocks still dominate the landscape, the euro was once hailed as a fast-track ticket to the economic…
Polish Nuclear Dreams Threaten Ties with Germany
Source: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl Witold Krassowski/ DER SPIEGEL Determined to develop its nuclear industry to meet its booming energy needs, Poland is tired of lectures from its environmentally conscious neighbor Germany.…
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