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Canadian Jewish Congress, B’nai Brith Canada and the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada released statements over the weekend, among others, expressing their sympathy and mourning the deaths. Peter Jassem, chair of the Toronto chapter of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation, recalled Kaczynski’s devotion to repairing ties between Jews, Israel and Poland. „He continued the political course that has now made Poland the closest ally of the Jewish state in Europe and its fervent supporter in the United Nations.  He was the first postwar head of Poland to celebrate the start of…

April 10, 2010 — New York — AJC Executive Director David Harris, issued the following statement this morning: We mourn the tragic death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and scores of other passengers in the crash of a governmental plane carrying them to a memorial service in Russia. We knew President Kaczynski very well, as we did several members of his entourage who also lost their lives in the accident. We last met the President in Warsaw in February, where we thanked him for his powerful speech…

BRUSSELS (EJP)—The Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) mourned the tragic untimely passing of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and many senior personalities of the Polish society. „We will sadly miss this leader who had a close relationship to the Jewish community and to Israel, both as Mayor of Warsaw and as President of the Republic of Poland,” the RCE said in a statement. Lech Kaczynski died Saturday in a plane crash in Russia. „As a great friend and national leader, we warmly recall his sympathy not just with words,…

Jews in Poland joined in mourning the victims of a plane crash that took the lives of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of other members of Poland’s leadership. Memorial services were scheduled in synagogues in Warsaw and Krakow, and Jewish organizations and cultural centers canceled their programs during the week of national mourning declared by the government. „In the face of an unimaginable tragedy we join the victims’ families and the whole country in grief and sorrow,” said Joachim Russek, director of the Judaica Foundation Center for Jewish Culture in…

President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi joined other world leaders and top-ranking military officers in extending condolences to the government, people and army of Poland as well as to the families of the victims of the plane crash that took the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and other senior dignitaries and military personnel. Also among the dead were relatives of Polish prisoners of war, mainly armed forces officers…