Congregations die, and other congregations need their Torah scrolls From Tablet Magazine, 7/13/16, By Jan Jaben-Eilon In April, Sarnat facilitated the donation of a Torah by Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle, Pennsylvania, to Beit Centrum Ki Tov, a brand new Progressive congregation in the center of Warsaw, Poland. In a couple of whirlwind weeks, […]
A Polish Torah Returns to Poland
March 31, 2016 Rabbi Haim Beliak brought a Torah back to Poland. Recently, Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland announced that it was seeking a Torah for its communities in Poland. We were surprised at the quick response when on Sunday March 20th the board of Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle, PA voted to send us […]
Polish Jews Rediscover Community, Themselves (AJT)
Acknowledging the surprising and wonderful revival of Polish Jewish life, I was pleased to be interviewed by Michael Jacobs, for the Atlanta Jewish Times. Statistically, Rabbi Beliak said, Poland must have 100,000 to 200,000 people with a Jewish grandparent or great-grandparent. The issue, as in the United States and Israel, is whether to embrace those who […]
Jewish Education and Engagement Make A Difference
That generalization is accepted throughout most of the Jewish world but in some places that is more true than in others. Take for example the remarkable emerging small communities in Poland where Judaism is being re-introduced. The profoundly moving stories of individuals finding a connection to long lost family. Jewish foundations spend millions of dollars […]
Beit Trojmiasto (Tricity) — The New Synagogue, July 2015
On July 13 Beit Polska’s newest congregation dedicated its synagogue in “Trojmiasto” (Tri-Cities) Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot. The chair of Beit Trojmiasto, Kasia Mazurkiewicz welcomed the community and told the story of the remarkable development of this tiny community of Progressive Jews against its illustrious history before World War II when the Free City of […]
Why it’s Important to Engage with Poles about Preserving Jewish Culture
Monday, November 3, 2014 I attended a memorial gathering in eastern Poland in a little town, Orla (in Polish “of the eagles”), near Bialystok. The following video captures the mood of the memorial service. Orla is typical of hundreds of villages throughout Poland. An out of the way village on the Russian-Polish border not far from […]
United by Memory in Bialystok
Throughout Poland on Sunday April 19, 2015 memorial events marked the seventy – second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazi occupiers. These pictures are from Bialystok. Children, adults and whole families were given yellow flowers as a symbol of these events. The symbol was first used by the ghetto survivor Marek Edelman, […]
Beit Polska Featured in Spring 2015 Kulanu News
Spring 2015 issue of Kulanu News is now online here. Kulanu (All of Us) has included “us” in their latest newsletter. We are featured along a number of “new “uses.” We thank Judy Manelis, Jack Zeller, andHarriet Bograd among the many devoted leaders of Kulanu. This is the second time we are featured in their […]
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