Piątek, 24 stycznia 2020 | 28 tewet 5780 – Dziadek mojej matki, Awram Hirsz Czerwiński, był kowalem tutaj w Warszawie, gdy znajdowała się ona pod rządami rosyjskich carów. Jeden z dziadków mojego ojca, Gedalja Mosze Wiśnia, miał zakład garbarski w Otwocku; a drugi dziadek, Josef Haberman, miał fabrykę mebli w Sochaczewie. Polska jest niezwykle ważną częścią mojej rodziny.
Erev Shabbat
Friday, Jan. 24th, 2020 | 28th Teveth, 5780 – My mother’s grandfather, Avram Hirsch Tchervinsky was a blacksmith for horses here in Warsaw, when it was ruled by the Czars of Russia. One of my father’s grandfathers, Gedalyah Moshe Wisnia owned a leather tanning factory in Otvotsk; and the other grandfather, Yosef Haberman owned a furniture factory in Sochaczew. Poland runs deep in my family.
Concerts in Support of Friends of Jewish Renewal/Beit Polska
http://www.csun.edu/humanities/jewish-studies/events/polish-jewish-renewal-panel-discussion It was a privelege to be asked to co-produce three concerts in suppoprt of Beit Polska in October 2016, with my friend and colleague Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak. With participation by Cantor David Wisnia, a fine singer, raconteur and Auschwitz survivor; Wisnia’s grandson, the singer/songwriter/keyboardist Avi Wisnia; Beit Polska prayer leaders Iza Rivka Foremniak […]
Parashat Re’eh: Two Roads
By Dr. Halina Postek Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, […]
Balak: Are we a people that “dwells alone”?
By Dr. Halina Postek July 22, 2016/16 Tammuz 5776 – This week’s Torah portion Balak is the only parasha in the entire Torah in which the conveyed events are made known to us not because the Israelites participated in them (they were the ones who witnessed all the other events described in the Torah). Rather, we […]
Korach: Problems with Democracy
By Dr Halina Postek July 8th, 2016/2nd Tamuz 5776 A year has passed since the Israelites left Egypt. That is enough time to forget the bitterness of slavery, humiliation and persecution. This period of time was long enough for the process of the idealization of the past to begin. Now Egypt seems like a land […]