When/Where: Friday, October 19, 7:30 p.m. Beth Ohr 12355 Moorpark Street Studio City, California Following the Shabbat services led by Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak and cantorial soloist Andrew Henry, we will welcome Steven D. Reece, a Protestant minister from Atlanta, who will speak about the important spiritual and physical work of remembering and restoring Jewish […]
Honoring the Righteous Poles
Holocaust survivor and visionary philanthropist, Zygmunt Rolat addressed students and and young people in Auschwitz – Birkenau at the annual March of the Living at the Arpil 16, 2015 commemoration. Mr. Rolat is one of key innovators and philanthropists who struggled to bring the museum; Polin: A Museum of the History of Polish Jews” to […]
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 […]
Special Lecture by Rabin Reiner in Gdansk and Dr. Richard Hecht in Warsaw
During the 4th of July weekend in Poland two distinguished scholars spoke to Beit Polska congregations. Rabbi Fred Reiner taught in Beit Trojmiasto (Gdansk, Sopot and Gydinia). Dr. Richard Hecht taught at Beit Warszawa. Here is a snippet of visiting scholar, Dr. Richard Hecht’s lecture called The Bible’s Practice of Keeping Kosher – The Food […]
THE CROOKED MIRROR: A MEMOIR OF POLISH-JEWISH RECONCILIATION BY LOUISE STEINMAN
[maxbutton id=”2″ ] Retrieving a Family’s Thread in Poland Book Review by Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak *Note: Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland secured the rights to the Polish translation in June, 2020. Translation shall commence shortly. Louise Steinman’s The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish- Jewish Reconciliation, interrupts the two universes of meaning hanging […]