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 Thursday, Cheshvan 11, 5781. October 29, 2020. Shalom! World. Meho Café. Dom Józefa Mehoffera Muzeum. Krupnicza 26. Krakow - Poland. The Meho Café is a real diamond inside the Mehoffera Museum: the beauty of the place, the high quality of the coffee and the service will touch you in the heart, and you will return, trust me.  During the spring and summer there is a beautiful garden with good tables to enjoy the sun. Krakow has a lot of good Cafés and Meho is one of the best if do you want a selected place. Cultural Support: Jacob Jr. Benleumi, Advisor, Consulting and Education. International Relations Analyst.

  Sunday, Cheshvan 7, 5781. October 25, 2020. Shalom! World.  Cafe Pensjonat. Rynek 69. Lanckorona - Poland. A sweet little place to stop by and have some great soup and potato pancakes. Lanckorona is so beautiful with its original architecture - really worth seeing it if you are somewhere nearby, from Krakow. The space, the service and the air of the Café is fabulous. You will feel inside a dream that finally come true.  During the winters times, you will be warm by the fire and thrilled with the artwork on the walls. Cultural Support: Jacob Jr. Benleumi, Advisor, Consulting and Education. International Relations Analyst.

Wednesday, Cheshvan 3, 5781. October 21, 2020. Shalom! World.  Lanckorona, Poland. How can you go? By train from Krakow to Kalwaria, around 55 min (07:34 - 08:29) and a Taxi to Lanckorona around 7 min (E$ 5,00).  Lanckorona is a village located 30 kilometres south west of Krakow in Lesser Poland. It lies on the Skawinka river, among the hills of the Beskids, 545 m above sea level. Lanckorona lost its town rights on 13 July 1933 as its population declined. A charming historic village, Lanckorona makes for a romantic day from Krakow. The town's picturesque setting endeared it to lovers and artists alike; some settled here, while others visited regularly for plein -air painting sessions.Today, you can stroll past old wooden houses, stop for a cozy café , and walk up to the castle ruins in the woods-remnants from one of the main battles of the Bar Confederarion against Russian encroachment in Poland.  Cultural Support: Jacob Jr. Benleumi, Advisor, Consultuing and Education. I...

  Sunday, Tishrei 30, 5781. October 18, 2020. Shalom! World.  Tykocin - Poland. The first Jews settled in Tykocin in 1522 when the town's owner, Olbracht Gasztold, brought in 10 families from Grodno (Hrodna) and permitted them to build a Synagogue, establish a cemetery, and pratice their trades. In 1661, Stefan Czarniecki assumed the post of starosta (district official), a title that after his death passed to the Branicki family and then to the Potocki and Rostworowski. The prominence and relative prosperity of Tykocin's Jews resulted in large part from the town's location on important trade routes  linking Polish lands and Lithuania. Jews of Tykocin traded with Königsberg, Vilna, Poznan, and Lublin, and also engaged in taxand tariff farming.  In the interwar period the Zionist movement grew especially strong in Tykocin. The town's organization established a school and a library. The Agudas Yisroel party was also active, it established a Beys Yankev girl's school. F...

  Tuesday, Tishrei 25, 5781. October 13, 2020.  Shalom! World.  Synagoga Tykocin. W Latach 1642 - 1941. Kozia 2, Tykocin - Poland. After more than a year of work, renovation is completed on the 17th century Synagogue in Tykocin, Poland - an the process has given the massive building a colorful new look. The facade is no longer white, but deep pink and light turquoise. A massive masonry building with a high mansard roof, the Synagogue, desecrated during World War II, was rebuilt and restored in the 1970s and opened on Nov. 1, 1976 as a branch of the Podlaskie District Museum in Bialystok. It was one of the few Jewish museums to open or operate in Communist-ruled east-central Europe. It marked its 40th anniversary in 2016 with revamped permanent exhibition and other renovations of the building's interior.  The Synagogue is a major attraction in the little town, visited  by at least 80,000 people a year. In 2013, it was voted one of the "new seven wonders" of Polan...

Thrusday, Tishrei 20, 5781. October 8, 2020.  Shalom! World.  Cheder Café, Jozefa 36, Kazimierz. Krakow - Poland.  Cheder is a name for a Caé run by the Jewish Culture Festival. This is where you can tasteexcellent coffee, including Cheder's specialty: coffee brewed in finjan, a unique Israeli brass-pot. Cheder also serve tea with nana (fresh mint), the best hummus in town, as well as other dishes inspired by the Middle-Eastern cuisine.  Cheder is Yiddish word for primary school for boys. Following this meaning is a chance to encounter contemporary Jewish Culture from Israel and the entire Diaspora.  This Café is perfect to meet friends and enjoy a fresh air of culture and perfect food. Elzbieta and me changed ideas about Philosophy, Travels and the real meaning for keeping alive. Unforgettable Café!!!  History of Cheder  In 1890, on the ground floor of the building at 36 Jozefa Street in Krakow's Kazimierz, Khevra Ner Tamid, Jewish religious organizat...

Monday, Tishrei 17, 5781. October 5, 2020.  Shalom! World.  Wielka Synagoga, 1922. Suraska Ulica.  Bialystok - Poland. Jewish settlement in Podlasie appearedin the fifteenth century. It was 1522 when Tykocin's Duke Albert Gasztold brought to Tykocin nine Jewish families who founded the Kahaland the cemetery. Since that time Tykocin had become the center of the Jewish community and the largest jewish community in Podlasie.  However, the first mention of the Jews living in Bialystok estates dates back to 1658. In Bialystok the privilege De non tolerandis Judaeis did not apply. Also, a city having fiscal privileges was an encouraging place for settlement.  The Jews were given by the Bialystok pastor a lease of land for a construction of a Synagogue. It was located on Boznicza (now Suraski) Street and was funded in party by Hetman Branicki's wife. The brick building was built between 1711-1718 on a rectangular plan, to which the adjacent annex was built in the late ...