Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian, and founder and first Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide,[…]
The Musical Commitments of a Survivor – Cantor David Wisnia
Cantor David S. Wisnia has a remarkable voice, and he uses it to tell his remarkable story. He is fluent in multiple languages and received his vocal training in his native Poland as a student of renown Cantors Sirota and Koussevitsky. He served as Cantor of Temple Shalom in Levittown, PA for 28 years, and recently retired after 23 years as Cantor of Har Sinai Congregation of Trenton, NJ. David Wisnia is a member of[…]
Bogdan’s Journey with Bogdan Bialek, Directors Jaskulski and Loewinger
A conversation with the eponymous Bogdan Bialek and the film’s co-directors Lawrence Loewinger (USA) and Michal Jaskulski (Poland) on July 4, 2021. Marek Jezowski and Haim Beliak host this discussion. Greetings from members of the Kielce societies and their descendants including: Ya’akov Kotlicki, Manny Becker, Sydney Machtinger and Noa Marco.
THE ZEAL FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
CELEBRATING LGBTQ+ PRIDE
European Union for Progressive Judaism Pride Shabbat, 3rd July 2021 – 23rd Tammuz 5781
Shabbat shalom everyone. It’s an honour and a great pleasure to be invited to speak today at this first European Union for Progressive Judaism Pride Shabbat morning service.
I would like to take this opportunity to express heartfelt solidarity for all those living in countries where LGBTQ+ people do not have the protection of equality laws and experience homophobic and transphobic abuse and persecution, both by the authorities and in popular culture.[…]
BOGDAN’S JOURNEY: Memory, Reconciliation and Healing
BOGDAN’S JOURNEY: a new documentary film about murder and mayhem–and 70 years later—about memory, reconciliation and healing. Kielce, Poland was the site of Europe’s last pogrom. In 1946, a year after WWII ended, townspeople killed 40 holocaust survivors seeking shelter in a downtown building, and injured 80 more around the city. After the pogrom, as […]
On the Threshold of Freedom
Passover Music in Poland Experience the unique spirit of the Passover season with joyous music of Passover. The concerts will feature two of Poland’s rising musical stars Cantor Anna K. Silverman and student rabbi, Dr. Menachem Mirski. We welcome the participation of our host Rabbi Neil Comes-Daniels and the Beth Shalom Shul Band; Beth Ohr’s […]
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