The Moral and Legal Case for Killing an Iranian Nuclear Scientist
Misunderstanding the reality of modern war.
December 2, 2020
The Polish Gentile Who Devoted Her Life to Preserving Abandoned Synagogues
Maria Piechotka, in memoriam.
Besides engaging in mass murder of Jews themselves, the Nazis often deliberately destroyed Jewish houses of worship and cemeteries. Numerous synagogues were also laid waste by the sheer devastation of World War II, and those that remained were neglected in a land with few Jews, ruled by a government that repressed Judaism. Despite all this, Maria and Maciej Piechotka spent much of their lives preserving and documenting Jewish religious architecture in their country. Maciej died in 2010 at the age of ninety, while his wife Maria died last month, just a few weeks after reaching the age of one hundred. Jewish Heritage Europe reports:
December 2, 2020
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A Nine-Year-Old Boy Discovers a Bead from the Era of the First Temple in Jerusalem
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The Polish Gentile Who Devoted Her Life to Preserving Abandoned Synagogues
Maria Piechotka, in memoriam.