I met Esther Meyers after her return from Poland. That trip proved a powerful event in her life that had beckoned her for may years. There was also a justified reluctance that Esther carried. At a peaceful Shabbat dinner, Esther spoke about the people and places she experienced as she returned to her parents’ world. […]

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 […]

Introduction:  Joanna Auron-Gorska’s poetic evocation of her search for a HOME — Hebrew, BEIT or BAYIT continues a spiritual theme that marks Jewish life.  In today’s Poland, the emergence of Jewish life renews in her (and in all of us) a hope expressed amid both surprise and anxiety. Almost sixty-eight years after Hitler’s destructive efforts […]