February 13, 2015 a group of people gathered for Shabbat in Lublin. Friday evening began with a musical service featuring elements of Welcoming the Shabbat (Kabbalat Shabbat) and the Evening Service ( Maariv). Piotr Mirski started with short medley of Shabbat songs including a few Yiddish and the classic Hineh Ma Tov (How Good It […]
Hanukkah 2014
Enjoy the wonderful pictures from Beit Warszawa Hanukkah 2014 (5775). The Progressive Jewish community in Warsaw enjoyed wonderful latkes and Hanukkah games (especially dreidle) and activities. Please consider a Hanukkah tax free gift that will sustain the hope filled work of Beit Polska and the nine communities served by the European Union for Progressive Judaism and Friends of Jewish […]
Sagacious Teaching During Sukkot
Welcoming Rabbi Anne Brener (author of Mourning & Mitzvah: Walking the Mourners’ Path – Jewish Lights Publishing) to a week long series of teachings. Beit Warszawa is pleased to welcome to Poland one of America’s great Rabbinic teachers, Anne Brener. Rabbi Brener’s teaching will enrich the Sukkot holiday in Warsaw, Poland. Beit Warszawa’s Rabbi Gil Nativ […]
Seder at Beit Warszawa in Pomarańcza
Passover the holiday that marks freedom and hope was celebrated by four communities in Progressive Poland’s Beit Polska in three wonderful settings. From the humble beautiful school room borrowed by Beit Trojmiasto (Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot), to a master chef’s restaurant for a new group under the leadership of Albert Katana in Beit Katowice to the most magical setting of a Pomaranczarnia in Warsaw for Beit Warszawa and […]
Seder at Katowice
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 […]