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 […]
Beit Bialystok – A Dream Under Construction
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 […]
Sylwia’s Story
Honorable Dayanim, It is really difficult for me to gather all the thoughts and reflections on Judaism I have had from the age of five – I am now 34, so there were quite a few. It is almost impossible to sum them all up, but I will try – ever since I can remember […]
Shalom, Czesz, part I “All of the people Israel are responsible for one another”
Initial thoughts on Jewish Renewal in Poland This blog is an invitation to join with friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland in the opportunities/challenges offered by fostering authentic Jewish life in Poland. For those of us outside of Poland it is a mitzvah (good deed/Torah obligation) encapsulated in the rabbinic phrase “Kol Yisrael Aravim Zeh b’Zeh — All […]
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