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| | Anna Pawlikowska |  Publication by the government of Ireland of the report on the abuse of children in care of religious institutions should fundamentally change the way the Church functions in our society as well as the Church itself. The report lists some conditions which allowed perpetration of such brutal and oppressive treatment of so many over a long period of time.read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz |  On the face of it, things look bleak – the Israeli election will be followed by deadlock, political shuffling, the future coalition’s reluctance towards dialogue, or stalemate, necessitating repeated election.read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz | The discussion about bishop Williamson's veiws keeps spreading, and it seems not much can be added. People tend to ignore one aspect, though – probably the most crucial and urgent one – namely that the bishops is still rector of the seminary that forms the Fraternity staff. It is no use discussing his views, which are well-known, but it is necessary that he immediately be dismissed from his position as rector. read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz | A Muslim friend of mine, opponent of terrorism and inter-religious dialogue advocate, once told me that the most sure method of handing power over to terrorists is through democratic elections. This is also the most sure method of doing away with democracy or making it impossible.read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz | Girl stoned to death in Somalia on 27 October was 13 years old. She had been accused of adultery in breach of Islamic law. Why? Because she came to report the rape on her by three men to the al-Shabab militia who control Kismayo.
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| Stefan Wilkanowicz | At first glance such question has no sense. Are there possible operations helping these countries at the same time? What do they need?read more » |
| Slawek Szefs (Polskie Radio) | Sports fans are getting settled in front of their TV sets for the start of the Olympic Games, but a no small part of Polish society does not feel the excitement because of human rights abuse in China. read more » |
| Eli Zborowski | Waldemar Piasecki speaks with Eli Zborowski Vice President of World Federation of Polish Jews, Chair of the International Society for Yad Vashem.read more » |
| Jose Casanova | The revolution of desacralization itself was the world-historical contribution of Old Testament Judaism. By turning the God of Israel into the radically transcendent world of creation and world history, it turned every other creature and the entire creation into de-sacralized reality – interview with Jose Casanova.read more » |
| | Marek Bartosik interviews Stefan Wilkanowicz, vice-president of the International Auschwitz Council.
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| | Associate me with thinking of Jan Karski, whose truths also aroused pseudo-patriotic fury among many know-it-alls about Poland, observes Jan Tomasz Gross in an interview with Waldemar Piasecki.read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz | We believe that growing hatred may undermine reaching a solution to burning conflicts; hence, we are convinced that giving hope and presenting good is desirable.
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| An interview with director Piotr M. A. Cywiński | Katarzyna Nowak: Exactly one year ago, on June 12, 2006, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage nominated you as Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. How would you sum up that year in brief?read more » |
| Menachem Stern | My holocaust is about memory. A memory of a child, thrown into a world that went mad. Memory that haunts me ever since.read more » |
| Shana Penn | On one of my recent trips to Poland, a young Jewish man studying at Warsaw University asked me: "Why do you American Jews send your children on death camp tours of Poland? Why choose only death when you could show life?"read more » |
| Anna Dobranowska | The 13th festival... For a Jewish boy the thirteenth year of life is important – because of Bar mitzvah, after which he becomes responsible for his actions. 13 years is also a period long enough to avoid certain organizational errors.read more » |
| Izabella Main | A tour, called Visiting Seven Synagogues was one of the proposals during the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków. The tour was organized everyday, either in English or in Polish language, in Kazimierz. Due to a large interest, the Festival organizers decided to double the number of the tours. Since it was a new element in the program of the Jewish Culture Festival, I wanted to know how the tour was viewed by its guide and a few participants. I found some opinions so interesting that I would like to share them with you.read more » |
| Stanisław Obirek SJ | During the morning prayer in the Tempel Synagogue, opening the 13th Jewish Culture Festival, I was rebuked by a Rabbi (I was asking someone about the meaning of particular rituals). Then I thought, well, ... so now it is normal, it should be this way. A prayer is a prayer.
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| Stefan Wilkanowicz | Observing the project of writing a Preamble to the future Constitution of the European Union has convinced me that such a document must be based on honorable and hard truth, rather than on selective memory and meaningless generalities. This is why I have written my own Preamble, for myself and for those of a similar mindset. I plan on following these tenets regardless of the decisions that will be made by our respectable lawmakers.
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| Marco Panella | Marco Pannella, a member of the European Parliament and the leader of the Transnational Radical Party, after the announcement of Israeli Prime Minister:read more » |
| Władysław Bartoszewski | The proud and beautiful city of New York is known worldwide as one of the most important centers of the Jewish Diaspora. In fact, nowadays it is true to say that it is the most important city in the entire world. But as a Pole who lives and was born in Poland's capital city, Warsaw, I can never forget that it was from Warsaw and other Polish cities, and from countless shtetls, that during the 1900s Polish Jews left for New York, for the freedom of America, in search of a better future for themselves and their children – writes Władysław Batoszewski*.read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz | The war has begun. Everything is possible. In a few days, weeks, or months everything will be different in the Middle East. The political and economic reconstruction will begin, the new problems and conflicts will appear. Searching for balance, people will seek an opportunity for development. At the same time, they will be facing a threat of chaos, frustration and despair.read more » |
| HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal | As a believing Muslim I prayed for a peaceful end to the siege of the theatre in Moscow. I was conscious of the fact that we, observers of yet another example of man’s inhumanity to fellow man, had at least the luxury of time to pray for the innocent who were trapped against their will in that building – as we did not for the victims of Bali a mere month ago or New York a year ago. As a Muslim, I was yet again deeply insulted that the perpetrators of the siege should have the audacity to describe themselves as Muslims. What a gross indignity to people of faith and reason everywhere!read more » |
| El Hassan bin Talal | Sympathy, outrage, sadness, anger and contemplation. The horrific attacks in Bali have brought back the same, contradictory, feelings that were felt by nearly all of us last year following September 11, 2001. read more » |
| El Hassan bin Talal | As a Muslim I am deeply offended and embarrassed that the perpetrators of this massacre had the audacity to describe themselves as Muslims and as having claimed to have acted in the name of Islam. What a gross indignity to the almost two billion Muslims that inhabit our planet – writes Prince El Hassan bin Talal.read more » |
| Piotr M. A. Cywiński | What do we need a camp museum for today?
An elementary question. Is it to unite young Jews from all over the world? If so, it is not a good idea. For many of those who come, it is the only contact with Poland and the Poles. A new wall is rising. read more » |
| Stefan Wilkanowicz | First -- what does it call on us to do? Obviously, to remember the victims, to condemn and punish the guilty. But not only this-it also calls on us to try and understand the tragedy and its duality. Its uniqueness and, at the same time, its function as a model that can be repeated in a more or less similar fashion. read more » |
| Father Michał Czajkowski | The Shoah demonstrates the result of years of propaganda, spreading prejudice and hatred, years of racist indoctrination and centuries of anti-Jewish religious indoctrination. It warns us not to disregard first symptoms of the contagious diseases of anti-Semitism, nationalism or xenophobia.read more » |
| Guy Billauer | Much has happened since terrorists crashed airliners into New York’s World Trade Center and Washington’s Pentagon building last year, changing forever the world, as we know it. For Poles and Jews, the heart-wrenching events of the last ten months were intensified by the untimely passing of the best our respective communities could produce – George Szabad, an American Jew and Professor Stanislaus Blejwas, a Polish American.read more » |
| HRH Prince El Hassan | Message to the Roundtable – Religion, Culture, Nation and Constitution: Multiple Identities in Modern Societies.read more » |
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