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Poland, Israel in diplomatic spat over Polands property law
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and Israel have summoned each others diplomats in a growing dispute over Poland’s planned changes to property restitution rules that Israel and Jewish organizations say would prevent Jewish claims for compensation or property seized during the Holocaust and communist times.
On Monday, Israeli charge d ’affaires Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon met with Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski, who insisted the new regulations do not bar any property claims, which should be made through courts. Poland also says it must not be made responsible for property seizures by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of Poland.
Jablonski later said Ben-Ari Yaalon repeated the embassys statement from last week, which called the new regulations “immoral and said they “will have a serious impact” on bilateral relations.
Poland’s ambassador to Israel, Marek Magierowski, was at the Israeli F
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Talmud Torah Times Jan/Feb Newsletter
FEATURE
Tu BShevat
MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends,
I hope the start of has been good to you. Its so hard to believe we are at the end of February! Here in Edmonton, weve experienced winter in all variations, from °C to +10 °C, and everything in between. It will be interesting to see what March brings us!
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Natalie Soroka, Executive Assistant, TT Society
Message from Noga Vaisblat
President, Talmud Torah Society
Dear families,
I hope you have managed to stay warm the past couple of weeks. The weather seems to have gone a bit crazy this winter.
A lot is going on behind the scenes in our school and all board committees are in full swing. It is only March, but we are already looking towards next year! I am sure you have all received theSociety’s registration form. I ask that you please complete it at your earliest convenience, as this will he
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Roman Polanski honours Poles who saved him from the Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland — Oscar-winning filmmaker långnovell Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust during World War II.
Stefania and Jan Buchala were posthumously declared as “Righteous Among the Nations,” an bestowed by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, in a ceremony attended by their grandson.
The year-old Polanski, who now lives in France, to Poland for the occasion. That's one of the very few countries Polanski can travel to safely given that he remains a fugitive from U.S. lag after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a minor in and fleeing the United States the following year.
Polanski recalled Stefania Buchala as an “extremely noble and religious person” who had the courage to fara not only her own life in sheltering him, but also the lives of her children. In occupied