On July 10, 2013 members of Poland’s Jewish community gathered in the town of Jedwabne in the Lomza region for a memorial service. At the memorial – one, lone, eye witness child survivor, Isaac Lewin was there to witness and interrupt the proceedings commemorating the events of July 10, 1941. The reflection below: “Jedwabne 2013” […]
Re-joining the Family; Progressive Judaism in Poland
By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, Introduction by Judy Manelis Kulanu Magazine, Spring 2013 Poland is the birthplace or origin of many of North America’s Jews. Some scholars even believe that 70-80% of American Jews have roots in Poland. Certainly, we know that the great intellectual and religious movements of Zionism and Hassidism flourished on Polish […]
Beit Polska News, May 2013
I hope you are following the events, stories, and films relating to Poland during these weeks — the dedication of the new Museum of the History of the Jews of Poland; 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Holocaust Memorial Day etc. I’ll be blogging about many of these movies, articles, issues, and personalities at RabbiBeliakBlog, […]
Rabbi Janet Madden
Rabbi Janet Madden is teaching in Poland. Rabbi Madden’s blog tells of her experience in Universities in Bialystok and Lodz, as well as meetings with young Poles who are part of Beit Lodz, the Progressive Jewish community in Poland that is part of Beit Polska. Rabbi Madden has a Ph.D. in Irish literature from The National […]
Leaving Mitzráyim
Dr. Joanna Auron-Gorska is the leader of Beit Bialystok, the newest community of Poland’s Progressive Jewish communities known as Beit Polska. In this essay she reflects on the Seder she attended at the flagship congregation Beit Warszawa this March. Dr. Auron-Groska’s poetic evocation of the spirit of Jewish renewal in Poland reflects a recent event […]