FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
A comprehensive introduction to Judaism in Polish…is there a need? The Honey and the Sting is about to be published in Polish. This project is an opening to people curious about modern Judaism both its merits and its struggles.[…]
Grabowski’s research includes the issues surrounding the extermination of the Polish Jews as well as the history of the Jewish-Polish relations during the 1939-1945 period. He is the author of several monographs, including Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (Indiana University Press, Bloomington &[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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.
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.[…]
