In Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the immediate post-Holocaust events impacting Jewish life in Poland and the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics.[…]
Mittens and Scarves Drive Winter 2024
Last year, the Jaunusz Korzcack Child Care Fund of Beit Polska and Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland helped supply winter boots to 600 Ukrainian refugee children in Poland. We work with Spynka, a joint Polish-Ukrainian effort to address the needs of children and their mothers displaced by the war in Ukraine. This year we are providing mittens and gloves to the families. Please consider a donation for this fund. You may specifically designate your donation to this cause by […].
Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
The Rabbi Michael A. Signer Clergy Cabinet of Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland aspires to model the Jewish learning and humanity of our late teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer. Our plan was for Rabbi David Ellenson to co-write this letter to invite you to join the cabinet but, alas, both of them are now joined in the Yeshiva Shel Ma’alah. Their leadership example inspires us.[…]
An Opportunity for Generational Healing and Renewal
I just returned from leading a 17- day intensive study mission to Poland. A key focus was on current Progressive Jewish life of Beit Warszawa, Beit Trojmiasto, and the other Beit Polska communities and projects. Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland sponsors Beit Polska and is associated with the World/European Union for Progressive Judaism. Our […]
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