Rabbi Jack Shlachter (www.physicsrabbi.com) is currently a rabbi at HaMakom: The Place for Passionate and Progressive Judaism in Santa Fe, New Mexico while simultaneously serving the Los Alamos Jewish Center as their rabbi as well. Both congregations are small (approximately fifty families). Rabbi Shlachter is retired after several decades of full-time work at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Ph. D. physicist. Because rabbinical[…]
Tour Poland 2023
Rabbi Haim Beliak and Dr. Richard Hecht are planning an 11-day private tour to Poland beginning October 24 to November 5. Each of them will address the significant role that Poland has played in Jewish life. There will be meetings with Jewish community members and other Poles from across the spectrum.[…]
Concert for Ukraine
We warmly invite you to join the concert prepared by the Jewish Progressive community in Lviv. Congregation TEYVA is a home to several groups performing Yiddish music, including Sheyne Meydelekh Ensemble, Shtrudle Band & Mames un Tekhter Quartet. The Teyva community,[…]
Shabbat with Rabbi Berenbaum
Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, a faculty member of American Jewish University and a world-renown scholar of the Holocaust lead Shabbat services at Babel, the temporary home of Beit Warszawa.
Thank You For Your Visit, Rabbi Alan Iser!
Rabbi Alan Iser from Philadelphia visited Beit Warszawa on his way to teach at the Masorti Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Iser has a long-time connection to Beit Warszawa. He has lectured on Jewish law, Halachah and many other topics. This is Rabbi Isers sixth visit to Poland.
An Aid Worker in a Time of Pogrom, Chaos, and Anguish During the Russian Civil War
Michael Nutkiewicz translated and expanded Eli Gumener’s Yiddish memoir, originally published in Lithuania in 1921. Entitled A Ukrainian Chapter. A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir of Sorrow, the memoir depicts the fate of Jewish communities caught in the middle of the Russian Civil War and the challenges of providing relief to Jewish communities. Gumener (1886-1941) was Michael Nutkiewicz’s uncle and worked for major aid organizations between World War I and World War II. Michael was unaware of his story until he discovered the book in his parents’ vast Yiddish library after they passed away. Gumener’s memoir is a highly valuable and rare historical source that focuses on the two most devastating years of pogroms in[…]
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