Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland
1. Oświadczenie (Statement), In Solidarity With the Nation and State of Israel we wrote in Polish and English on Oct. 8th.
2. Co-organized a demonstration of support for Israel at Grzybowski Square on Monday, Oct. 16.
In response to the events of[…]
Posthumously, Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld (died 2018) released his final book in English translation this Spring 2023. The haunting, evocative writer of over forty books who acquired the Hebrew language late in life may have come full circle. This last book, Poland, A Green Land’s continuity with Appelfeld’s past writing, points to the confrontation of a second generation of Israeli Jews that grew up in an “Israeli” ethos of forgetting and being alienated from their European Jewish survivor generation (VIEW PDF).[…]
Estelle Glaser Laughlin is a child Holocaust survivor who was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1929. We are marking the Polish translation of her book Transcending Darkness: A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust. This interview and other testimonies by Mrs. Laughlin will constitute a curriculum unit for Polish High school students.
In September 1939, Estelle’s family lived in Warsaw when Poland was attacked.. Along with her parents and sister, Freda, they were confined to the 1.3 square mile Ghetto area.[…]
Beit Polska The Union of Progressive Jewish Communities, together with the European and World Reform Movement, as part of the Jewish Family, stands in solidarity with the Nation and State of Israel.
The criminal attack by Hamas terrorists and the cruelty against Israeli civilians is a challenge not only to Israel.[…]
