Human Interest
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Step off the train at Świdnica Miasto, a station in a small town in Poland's Lower Silesia, turn right, and you can't miss her. A larger-than-life portrait of a Irena Sendler, painted in shades of gray, covers the side of the building at 3 Dworcowa Street, a name that simply means Station Street. She is […]
Human Interest
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Are you an Abraham, an Isaac or a Jacob? Each of the Patriarchs embodied a core drive that still lives inside every one of us. Abraham embodied chessed, kindness and the drive to give. Isaac embodied yirah, a deep sense of purpose and reverence for what is higher than yourself. Jacob embodied emet, a commitment […]
On the eve of World War II, Poland was home to about 3.3 million Jews, the largest Jewish community in Europe. We usually picture its final years as a story of religious decline. Young Jews, the story goes, were leaving the synagogue in droves, trading prayer books for socialist pamphlets and Zionist dreams. By the […]
The first trapdoor was hidden in the floor. In 2012, Dutch corporate attorney Roxane van Iperen bought a secluded nine-room house on a quiet forest path and began to renovate it. The house started giving up its secrets almost at once. There were more trapdoors, secret rooms, and double walls. Then came stranger finds: old […]
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Abraham camped there. Joshua fought there. Archaeologists said nobody lived there. A northern gate, a fire and a beheaded idol are reopening the case.
