Robert Piaskowski News Today

Poland's Krakow Film Music Festival featured an otherworldly lineup, highlighting Spielberg's 'E.T.' and James Cameron's 'Avatar.'

Since the war in Ukraine began in February, Polands Fundacja Powszechnego Czytania (Universal Reading Foundation) has been leading an international effort to get books into the hands of Ukrainian refugee children in Poland and support Ukrainian publishers; this week, the Foundation revealed the recipients of its grant application process.

Going against long-held Polish tradition, Krakow's municipality will slowly phase out the souvenir caricatures after acknowledging the trinkets are antisemitic

Fear of an antisemitic backlash causes some local Jews to join residents and environmental activists in pushing back against municipal plans to mark the notorious Plazsow site

Statement follows campaign by Polish Jews to stop the sale of models; some locals treat figures as charms for increasing revenues, typically depicting Orthodox Jews counting money

The city may deny market concessions to vendors of the depictions of Orthodox Jews, who are often shown counting money.