Progressive Jewish Life Begins in the Katowice/Bytom Region Beit Katowice is holding its first Friday night Shabbat service and dinner this week. Beit Katowice meets in a private apartment as do most Progressive Polish Jewish groups in Poland. The parashah (reading from the Torah) this week is BaMidbar. Beit Katowice will be using fresh drafts of the […]
Twinning
Twin With Beit Polska’s Congregations and People Twinning — partnering between individuals or organizations — creates bonds of fellowship and resources for mutual benefit. Twin your congregation! The adventure of twinning with one of Beit Polska’s emerging communities will connect congregation members with their roots. Twinned communities exchange visitors (financed, perhaps, with donated miles), cybervisits with […]
Seder at Beit Trojmiasto (Tri-Cities)
Seder celebrations at Beit Trojmiasto (Tri-Cities: Gdansk, Gydinia, and Sopot). Beit Polska sponsored three Sederim. We are happy to share beautiful pictures from Beit Trojmiasto. Thanks to Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland and JDC Poland.
Bridges on the Elbe
Reflections on “Faith in Action” European Union for Progressive Judaism Conference, in Dresden, Germany Dr. Joanna Auron is a member of the board of Beit Polska. Her book “Describing Who? Polish Photographs by Jewish Photographers” will soon be published on Peter Lang press. This lyrical reflection on the European Union for Progressive Judaism conference “Faith in […]
Bialystok: Matzevot (Gravestones) Treated with Dignity
In the 50s Bialystok Poland’s communist era local government used Jewish gravestones (Matzevot) for retaining walls, water channels, and grading walls. Until just yesterday (May 9, 2014), in the center of the city there stood a fountain, long defunct, constructed of Matzevot. Extract and Translation of Gazeta Bialystok: [gview file=”http://RabbiBeliakBlog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Gazeta-Bialystok-May-9-2014_Matzevot_eng.pdf”] No effective protest was raised until summer 2013. Frequent visitors to Bialystok […]
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