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Podgorska, Joanna
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
A victory for Poland's female politicians
The Polish parliament on Tuesday named Ewa Kopacz as its first female Marshal, and with Wanda Nowicka appointed as her deputy another woman has joined the Presidium. But it was a hard-fought battle against the forces of conservatism, the online edition of the left-liberal news magazine Polityka notes: "We have two women speakers in the Presidium. That is another small revolution for Poland, but it was by no means easy. First there were the absurd accusations against Ewa Kopacz [by the conservative opposition PiS party] that she didn't do enough to clear up the Smolensk catastrophe. But that was just the prelude to what Wanda Nowicka had to go through. ... She failed in the first vote, primarily because of resistance from her colleagues in the [liberal-conservative governing party] Civic Platform. Because it was clear from the outset how the PiS would react. ... Then it took a personal intervention by Prime Minister Donald Tusk to decide the second vote vote."
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Poles hinder sexual education
According to a recent report by the private education institute Grupa Edukatorów Seksualnych Ponton, for young people in Poland sex is a mixture of pornography and superstitions like the claim that the first time people have sex they are infertile. The online edition of news magazine Polityka says society and the politicians are to blame: "The Polish state acts as if Polish teenagers don't have sex. This sounds morally correct and somehow decent and harmonises with prevalent values. So sex education for the young is superfluous. It's enough for the Church to tell them that you don't have sex before marriage. The rest they can learn at their premarital lessons [obligatory for Polish couples wishing to have a church wedding and are subject to fees]. And when responsible teenagers want to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy and turn to a gynaecologist for help, the latter sends them back to their parents as instructed."
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The history of Jewish life in Poland
This week the foundation stone for the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews was laid in Warsaw - right next to the monument commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Jerzy Halbersztadt, founding director of the museum, explains in an interview with Joanna Podgorska why this museum is so important in a country which was home to 3.5 million Jews before the Holocaust. He points out that the goal is "visitors to the museum should include both Poles familiar with Jewish history, and Jewish tourists who want to see how the Poles present the Jewish legacy. Both are to meet here. They can observe each other's reactions. The museum can serve to demystify these relations... Here, they [the Jewish tourists from abroad] can see how the state of Israel has roots on the River Vistula. For two centuries the unique Jewish parliament worked here. It is here that secular Jewish life began, and here that the phenomenon of Chassidism took root and developed."
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