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Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak

THE ZEAL FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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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

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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

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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 […]